Famous quotes containing the word nurse:
“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatnessa harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
—William Cullen Bryant (17941878)
“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)
“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 (15641616)