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“All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.”

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Erin Cummings, born in July 1977, is a talented American actress known for her performances in various television series and films. She has won the hearts of audiences with her exceptional acting skills and unique charm. more

“Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.”

Source: Tender is the Night

“It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.”

Men May Children Might Cold Citizens Limits Doctors Likes Tyranny Anarchy Nurse

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor...and just like a toddler, the bar patron wakes up the next day not remembering or caring how they behaved.”

Ifs School Remember Next Normal Wake Up Caring Bars Nurse Next Day Nursery Patron Toddler Nursery School

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.”

Ifs Firsts Stills Ideas Ends Hurt My Own Week Feet Fronts Theory Months Evidence Connections Terror Teeth No Idea Chairs Nurse Equipment Mama Clicks Buzz Folding Sticking Out Synapses

Author:Katherine Dunn

“India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world”

World India Nurse Nursery Great Faith

Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.”

War Bones Yellow Nurse Uniforms Buttons Disturbed Crimson

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.”

Knows Want Natural Hell Scared Nurse I Want You Go To Hell

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.”