Famous quotes containing the word nurse:
“Then Englands ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
Where eer I wander, boast of this I can:
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but find her our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I conjure thee, and all the oaths which I
And thou have sworn to seal joint constancy,
Here I unswear, and overswear them thus,
Thou shalt not love by ways so dangerous.
Temper, O fair Love, loves impetuous rage,
Be my true Mistress still, not my feignd Page;
Ill go, and, by thy kind leave, leave behind
Thee, only worthy to nurse in my mind
Thirst to come back;”
—John Donne (15721631)