Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dag Hammarskjold

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

Clara Barton

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Clara Barton

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Clara Barton

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Confucius

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Desmond Tutu

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Desmond Tutu

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

Jane Austen

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Elizabeth Kenny

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

J. G. Ballard

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

Michael Buckley

I don?t really see how this constitutes an emergency. After all, we?re not running a nursing home. I see this as a way to circumvent town meetings. The voters should have a shot at this.

Terry Pratchett

Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

Eric Hoffer

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Stephen Ambrose

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

Tom Hodgkinson

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Steven Amsterdam

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

Robert Burns

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

Roz Chast

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start.

Rose Macaulay

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Peter Singer

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Warren Beatty

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can ‘get even.

Eve Hewson

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.

Florence Nightingale

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Florence Nightingale

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Florence Nightingale

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Florence Nightingale

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.