Nurse

Famous quotes containing the word nurse:

    “The intellectual damn
    Will nurse your half-hurt. Quickly you are well.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “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 (1817–1862)

    “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, love’s impetuous rage,
    Be my true Mistress still, not my feign’d Page;
    I’ll go, and, by thy kind leave, leave behind
    Thee, only worthy to nurse in my mind
    Thirst to come back;”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)