Famous quotes containing the word nurse:
“Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)