The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.
I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
White. . . is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.
