Quotes for All
They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don’t have a lot of things that give them joy from day … Read more
My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. Erykah Badu
Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate. Ernest Hollings
The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. Ed Rendell
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later. Douglas Preston
They say ‘life is precious’. To who? To you, when you’re young and you’ve got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn’t killed himself is that he hasn’t figured out a way he … Read more
Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they’re the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. Dennis Miller
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It’s such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others. Debby Ryan
Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home. David Mixner
Charley talking to Cookie ‘’You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication and steal all the bedpans?” ‘’Yes” I said wondering what I was walking into ”That’s going to be you!” She was probably right, if I live that long Darynda Jones