Top 207 Nanny Quotes & Sayings

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

There was no way I was going to have a baby and hand him over to a nanny.

Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!

We have a part-time nanny who does a few afternoons a week. We have a nursery.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.

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

For the first time ever we have our own buses. That's purely out of necessity because Gwen's got her nannies and the babies on her bus, and Tom has his wife and his nanny and baby, and Adrian his wife, nanny and their son.

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.

A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

I'm a workaholic. I'm a Capricorn, It's my nature, And I'm convent educated: I sew better than any nanny we've ever had.

You've got to love a movie where a witch is your nanny.

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.

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

Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.

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

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

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

We have a nanny in the house, but there are always times when one of my kids does something bad or wrong, and they'll listen to me more than they do the nanny. So I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for them at a young age, so they will know, 'I better listen to Mommy.'

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And I don't blame individual women for wanting to keep an eye on it. I blame the government for not having subsidized high-quality day care. Should it be on a woman no matter how rich she is to be a one-woman show where she finds the nanny, interviews the nanny, does a psychological evaluation of the nanny, supervises the nanny? It's criminal how little America cares about child care, which is to me the pressing issue of our nation.

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

My nanny had me mam when she was 16.

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

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

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

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

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

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

Temping is the worst. I would rather starve and be homeless than nanny or temp again.

There's something I want to say, and I haven't been able to articulate it yet, about how it's so rude when people don't admit that they have a nanny.

I loved my nanny very much, but she was never a replacement for my mom in any way.

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.

I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.

I'm nicknamed the 'food tsar' by the press. I'm always giving my opinion on things like; 'Don't nanny children,' although children sometimes do need a nanny. Being a judge on 'Great British Menu' reinforces this image of me.

You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

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.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.

I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm.

My dad's my nanny, so he spends a lot of time with me in L.A. when my mom's in Atlanta.

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

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

I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny. But, I haven't had that fear.

We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

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'll tell you how I balance family and career. I have a nanny.

Kayte is breast-feeding, and we do not have a nanny or a trusted baby-sitter at this time, so Faith goes everywhere with us.