Nurse Quotes

[On the morning of Sept. 11, Read awoke to the sound of his mother's tears. After learning what had happened in New York City, he joined a task force of rescue units that began arriving from New Jersey within a half-hour of when the North Tower was struck. Read reached Liberty State Park, 15 minutes after the first tower collapsed. At the scene, rescue crews created a staging area and field hospital with other units. The group included 250 ambulances, 100 surgeons, 50 paramedics, 50 nurses and 350 emergency medical technicians.] It was an impressive staging area... We had everything we needed. Organization just sort of happened. - Jason Read

[No doubt Judd, 32, was the supervising nurse. Friends say the former backup dancer is trying to teach his Type-A wife to take a breather every now and then.] They can relax together... And when you're around Jennifer, that's amazing, because I never thought that girl could relax. - Tina Landon

[Monty] Woolley reduced the nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner to the potency of a pound of wet Kleenex. It was probably the best thing that had happened to the art of the insult since the Medicis stopped talking in the 16th century. - Richard Severo

[Leading Democrats were on Schwarzenegger's side then. That collapsed this year. A series of proposals by the governor antagonized teachers, nurses, police officers and firefighters. Since March, they have run a barrage of TV spots that have shredded his popularity.] He made the mistake of taking on the first responders... That was just plain crazy. - Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

[It's] a model that the nurse-midwife provides total care to her patient and yet has backup in an emergency situation. If you're doing it at home, you would not have the backup of the hospital. - John Byrne

[Houses' patient has just collapsed]
This is exactly why I created nurses. Clean up on aisle three! - Dr. Gregory House

[a rural bible belt town that goes on for miles and is strewn with debris and broken hearts. The nurse, 39, who lives in Bedford, N.Y., has been helping victims of Katrina since Sept. 6.] Christie just gave me a picture she drew... It is of an angel blowing a horn. The angel has a red cross on her gown. Marked with a red cross. - Patricia Dunn

(The test) is comparable to what nurses would take to become registered nurses, not it is on a national level. - Thomas Sandridge