Nannies Quotes

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

I used to worry about losing my husband to another woman. Now, I'm more afraid of losing my nanny to another woman.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

The first time I learned I could sell myself was when I convinced a wealthy American family to give me a job as a nanny. Childcare. Totally unqualified. But I learned to be ready for anything. And that I can adapt. That I can become the best diaper changer.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.