The Gentle Falcon (1957)
Context: I was a lonely child though there were children in plenty on our land. But my nurse forbade me to play with them. She guarded my dignity; more than my mother, indeed, who being so great a lady took dignity for granted.
But in any case there was little time for them to play. There was work for even the smallest upon our land; some of our peasants had run away, tempted by ever-rising wages. Wages fixed by law were certainly low; but, like many another ruined in the French wars, we had no money to pay a penny more than the law laid down. All over the country men were running away from their masters and the land lost as many laborers as by the Black Death itself. <!-- p. 14
“In Ceylon I had a black nurse who wet - nursed me.
Years later I was told by my father that she said of me:"This boy plenty belly, big stick."”
Kingston, p. 4
Vokes - My Story (1985)
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“The halo of Fr. Damian was before me, [he said] and I knew that Sadhana would nurse me.”
While on training at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine on the treatment of leprosy, he volunteered to be a human guinea pig to get injected with dead bacilli and also live bacilli. Page=10
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“Lois Learned, Big Nurse, and I thought, Oh my God.”
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Context: I was performing The Sea Lion in the Newport Performing Arts Center. Afterwards a white-haired old woman approached me and said, Hey, you remember me? I looked her over, and I knew I remembered her, but had no idea who she was. She said, Lois. It still didn’t click. She said, Lois Learned, Big Nurse, and I thought, Oh my God. She was a volunteer at Newport, long since retired from the nursing business. This was the nurse on the ward I worked on at the Menlo Park hospital. I didn’t know what to think and she didn’t either, but I was glad she came up to me. I felt there was a lesson in it, the same one I had tried to teach Hollywood. She’s not the villain. She might be the minion of the villain, but she’s really just a big old tough ex-army nurse who is trying to do the best she can according to the rules that she has been given. She worked for the villain and believed in the villain, but she ain’t the villain.
“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”
Source: City of Bones
“Everyone in my family is a nurse except me.”
[Summer, 2009, Claire, Connors, 5 minutes to a prettier, healthier you: surfer and supermodel Marisa Miller shares some very down-to-earth insider tricks that work for every woman, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0846/is_91_28/ai_n32169632/, Shape magazine]
In an interview in Rolling Stones Magazine, September 30, 2010, talking about his father who was killed in WWII.
Miscellaneous
“We are grown-up infants, and God is a sort of 'wet nurse' to humanity.”
Eminent Indians (1947)