Famous quotes containing the word nurse:
“Then England’s ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
Where e’er I wander, boast of this I can:
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“O comfort-killing night, image of hell,
Dim register and notary of shame,
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell,
Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“This is the TV parlor
in the best ward at Bedlam.
The night nurse is passing
out the evening pills.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)