Quotes by Nurse Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true. Trevor Howard vision nurse dream Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. Trisha Goddard nurse father way The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible. Virginia Henderson recovery unique nurse Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters. Vivian Gornick doctors tasks nurse I think she always nursed a small mad hope. Vladimir Nabokov mad nurse thinking Now the leaves are falling fast, W. H. Auden flower nurse fall Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. Walter Scott tyrants names nurse O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! Walter Scott land nurse children How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. Warren Beatty nursing hate nurse Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse. Warren Beatty nursing nurse sometimes I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand. Wendell Berry grief nurse baby When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn. Wendell Berry barns nurse sheep The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems. Willem Dafoe patient nurse together Difficulty is the nurse of greatness. William C. Bryant difficulty greatness nurse Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. William Blake criminal-mind nurse desire The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs. William Cowper sick nurse sleep In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better. William John Locke nurse men children Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts. William Makepeace Thackeray darling nurse The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. William Osler nursing blessing nurse Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. William S. Burroughs doctors addiction nurse «1011121314151617181920»