These nursing home quotes will inspire you. A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging nursing home quotes, nursing home sayings, and nursing home proverbs.
Positive Nursing Home Quotes
- “Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.” Steven Wright
- “I worked at a nursing home though high school… There’s a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we’re so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.” Bonnie Hunt
- “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
- “My mother was an administrator at a nursing home, and my first job was working at a nursing home as an activities assistant. She wanted me to do it because it forces you out of your shell, and it’s about giving back. That’s something that I learned from my mother at a very young age.” Tony Gonzalez
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“I’d rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.” Florence King
- “My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people’s stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They’d say, ‘I went to school in a horse and cart,’ and I’d just think ‘Wow!’ I’d picture myself in their place – acting was a natural progression.” Olivia Colman
- “I’m in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I’ll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.” Imelda May
- “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
- “The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.” Alice Munro
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“There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.” Atom Egoyan
- “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 , Nursing home quotes care
- “My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.” Rickie Lee Jones
- “My first job was in a nursing home – a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.” Kim Edwards
- “I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don’t realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it’s safe to say I’m a little above middle class and I’m a daddy’s girl.” LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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“I don’t want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don’t. I don’t want to be like that.” Louis Walsh
- ” ‘Halo’ I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he’d often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn’t see. And he always – he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he’d write a song with me about Jesus’ halo.” Abigail Washburn
- “At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise – though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.” Beeban Kidron
- “I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She’s clever. She does something modern to the sentence.” Rachel Kushner
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“I’m Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class – my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.” Jimmy Gomez
- “There’s instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether it’s safe to visit someone in a nursing home. But there are ways to deploy immunity information to help us understand our own health status and keep us safer from Covid, without surrendering privacy.” Scott Gottlieb
- “After recovering from COVID-19, I had to be again admitted to a nursing home as I was suffering from gastroenteritis and UTI.” Soham Chakraborty
Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facilities (SNF), long-term care facilities, old people’s homes, assisted living facilities to care homes, rest homes, convalescent homes, or convalescent care.
