Nannies Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy

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

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

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

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

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

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

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

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

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.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

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.

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