Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Nightingale

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

Florence Nightingale

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

Sarah Waters

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Hannah Arendt

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Isaac Disraeli

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Guillermo del Toro

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

Gail Buck

I couldn't be more pleased to see that a school nurse was recognized.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Robert Frost

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

May Sarton

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

May Sarton

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

Plato

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Mencius

The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Feist

No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.

Bobby Labonte

Now it's a matter of getting everything together, and we'll do that. Whether it will take one week or 10 weeks, I don't know the answer. But I know the enthusiasm is there to do it, and our goal is to do it, and heart is in this.

Brian Henson

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

Carine Roitfeld

Enthusiasm is something so positive.

Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Norman Vincent Peale

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Dylan Moran

If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere.

Paulo Coelho

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

M. Wolfe

But there is also an enthusiasm factor. Stoning the pillars is the last rite of hajj, and throwing the stones can be a physical release. People really want to get into it,

Dave Ellis

He was a nice guy. He was always helpful, he was always keen and enthusiastic about everything.