Top 99 Nurse Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Nurse Quotes from famous people such as Judy Norton, Cori Bush, Merritt Wever, Randhir Kapoor, Mamie Van Doren, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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If I do have kids, we’ll have someone, like a nurse, take care of them, because I don’t intend to give up my career.
Judy Norton
As a nurse, I’ve seen firsthand the harmful effects of patients not being able to afford their lifesaving medications.
Cori Bush
I dreamed of being a nurse because I wanted to tangibly help the people I saw every day.
Cori Bush
Saying good-bye on ‘Nurse Jackie’ was a really big deal, so I’m sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.
Merritt Wever
Well, I have a 24-hour nurse since I have a bit of problem in walking due to a nerve related issue.
Randhir Kapoor
I didn’t feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren
I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn’t go down that path.
Mazie Hirono
My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route.
Shannon Briggs
A lot of people who have had the support of a McGrath breast care nurse, they come up and say what a positive difference it’s made in their lives and that in itself makes me realise what we’re doing is having a big positive effect and inspires me to keep going.
Glenn McGrath
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter
We have telemedicine where, if you come into our office, you can go downstairs, and there’s a machine there and a nurse there, and you talk to a doctor who works from a clinic down the street. It’s just going to make a great health care system in the long run. We just have a lot of pains go through.
Bruce Broussard
Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.
Trisha Goddard
I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef – I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can’t deny where you come from and what’s in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven’t looked back since.
Hillary Scott
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema.
Warren Beatty
Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
Ethel Rosenberg
Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I’m a primary care doctor. It doesn’t mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.
David Shulkin
Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember – my dad is also an actor and a director and a storyteller who lives and works in the Twin Cities; my mom is a nurse practitioner, but she also grew up doing theatre – so, it has always been a part of my experience.
Seth Numrich
My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school – she was going to become a registered nurse – because she had to take care of me and my brother.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
It is said that a person who makes other people laugh has a lot of pain in his heart. On the contrary, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a comedian and don’t nurse such thoughts.
Johnny Lever
I was on ‘That ’70s Show’ as the sexy nurse. I like that show, but I hated my character. I was like, ‘I will never do anything like this again in my life. I feel crazy.’
Rozonda Thomas
I want to go to Sierra Leone with something – whether it’s some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
Idris Elba
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Paul McCartney
I don’t usually see my type for on-camera stuff as a series regular. Normally, my type is the janitor, the secretary, the cop, or the nurse.
Donna Lynne Champlin
My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.
Johnny Iuzzini
Girls can be anything they want to be. Why be a nurse, for example, when you can be a doctor?
Judith Love Cohen
My dad is a builder, and my mum’s a nurse. They’re just very normal people.
Greg Rutherford
For me, I always nurse out in public. It never crossed my mind, because I was taking care of my child, and I was living my life. We need to know as women that that is normal and great and beautiful and OK. And I want to be part of that conversation – not making anyone feel wrong if they don’t do it.
Carrie-Anne Moss
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I’d be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
Faye Wattleton
My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
Olivia Colman
My problem is I live with only women – be it my mother, wife, daughters, cook, and nurse – who are all drama queens, ranging from the age of 8 to 75, all wanting a slice of me. But it’s mind-blowing to have these women in my life.
Prakash Raj
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical

That is what I’m looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
Angela Carter
You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
Bonnie Hunt
I don’t know how much love David felt – I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nurse, cook, housekeeper, creative ally, and business adviser.
Angela Bowie
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn’t come from money, and I didn’t come from circles of power. I didn’t come from the country club; I came from the town park.
Megyn Kelly
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician… tailor.
Hannah Gadsby
As strong as we are, we have our moments. My mama is an African woman who had four kids and was a nurse for 25 years, and she had her moments. I’ve seen her cry.
Yvonne Orji
I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.
Matthew Williamson
I actually wanted to be a nurse, of all things.
Sarah Jeffery
I remember always feeling lucky with Zoey on ‘Nurse Jackie’ that… she was new at the very beginning. So that gave her everywhere to go.
Merritt Wever
There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble – like the judge or the kindly nurse.
John Cho
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
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don’t get a cold.
Zac Brown
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman
Labour was founded to make the lives of working people better and to create more opportunities for everyone. Whether it’s aspiring to work as a nurse in a hospital or setting up and running your own business, Labour should be about ensuring fairness so that everyone has the same chance in life to reach their goals.
Sadiq Khan
I could see myself in a white nurse’s uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
Kate Smith
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
My grandma was a nurse, and she helped a lot of transgender clients, so growing up, I was very aware of that, and my family and I have always been very supportive of people going through this.
Farrah Abraham
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
Elizabeth Kenny
My sister is a nurse and saves people’s lives.
Nicholas Lea
Baba Seva – Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman – was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant at a textile factory, and her mother was a nurse. Her parents moved to Moscow with her and her brothers when she was a child.
Keith Gessen
I saw firsthand the impact of women’s efforts inside and outside the home from watching my wonderful mother, Nancy. A nurse who trained at Hopkins, she balanced the demands of raising our family with her work at our rural hospital on the Eastern Shore.
Ralph Northam
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
Matthew Goode
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
Florence Nightingale
I’ve seen phenomenal work in Leicester where people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease use telecare to measure their own oxygen levels, and if they need to change their meds they get a phonecall from a nurse who has seen the results of their readings.
Liz Kendall