Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Nurses

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century

A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured over in a manner not dissimilar to that of pop stars today. What he wore, what he said, what postures he adopted during speeches were all worked out carefully... Many people began to separate Hitler from the Nazi Party, enabling Hitler's popularity to remain high whilst the popularity of the Nazi Party fell.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.

The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.

I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say?

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

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.

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.