20th-century Nurse Quotes

Irena Sendler

Lucile Petry Leone

I always say I don't think everyone has the right to happiness or to be loved. Even the Americans have written into their constitution that you have the right to the 'pursuit of happiness'. You have the right to try but that is all.

I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between ease and rich unrest.

You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence

Irene Gut Opdyke

The horizon for nursing expands exhilaratingly... The depth has not been sounded. So we explore depths and distances. The nugget of truth lies in the nurse-patient relation. The distant star is the health of the people.

Lucile Petry Leone

Nursing prepares you for excellence. Be proud you are a nurse.