Nurse

Famous quotes containing the word nurse:

    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)

    This is the TV parlor
    in the best ward at Bedlam.
    The night nurse is passing
    out the evening pills.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    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)