Best Nanny Quotes

#1. The nation is divided, roughly half-and-half, between people who instinctively resent the Nanny State, and those who instinctively long for its ministrations.

David Warren

#2. I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

Kim Alexis

#3. Nanny Ogg appreciated fine wine in her very own way. It would never have occurred to Casanunda that anyone would top up white wine with port merely because she'd reached the end of the bottle.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.

Terry Pratchett

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

Gregory Maguire

#6. As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

Iggy Azalea

#7. A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.

Anthony Powell

#8. I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Adriana Trigiani

#9. My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Stephen Sondheim

#10. What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?"
A Bongaloo, Son," said I,
Is a tall bag of cheese
Plus a Chinaman's knees
And the leg of a nanny goat's eye

Spike Milligan

#11. Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Barack Obama

#14. little treasure as I can," Chloe's nanny said, closing the front door behind her. Dottie's children and three grandbabies lived in Alabama, so she didn't see them as often as she'd like. It was inevitable and only a matter of time before

JoAnn Durgin

#15. Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

Terry Pratchett

#16. There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be members of the family.

Robert Klein

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

Julian Fellowes

#18. 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.

Scott Raab

#19. No way was Tori going to play nanny to Sleepover Barbie, thank you very much. Not no... not hell no... fucking uh-uh!

Bethany K. Lovell

#20. 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.

Michele Bachmann

#21. I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.

Marcia Gay Harden

#22. Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Zora Neale Hurston

#23. I never understood that story, anyway," said Nanny. "I mean, if I knew I'd got a heel that would kill me if someone stuck a spear in it, I'd go into battle wearing very heavy boots -

Terry Pratchett

#24. The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

Mark Steyn

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

Anita Diament

#26. 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.

Emma Thompson

#27. Samantha, what have I told you?' demanded Mr. Green.

'That I should be seen, and not heard, until I turn eighteen. When I can say 'Good-bye, I'm returning my key' before moving out of home.' chanted Samantha.

R.A. Spratt

#28. I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#29. I wouldn't say I'm the best," she said, "but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say.

Terry Pratchett

#30. Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

P. J. O'Rourke

#31. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you - and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Simon Hoggart

#33. Sarah had no intention of having nannies or anything like that. Her mother had sighed a bit, and said vaguely: 'I always find women who look after their own children get rather untidy and disorganised. Husbands hate it too'. Sometimes Sarah wanted to slap her face.

Josa Young

#34. 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.

Tionne Watkins

#35. You're not going anywhere. Lily and I need you."
You'll find another nanny."
"Maybe, but I won't find another YOU.

Carter Blake

#36. There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.

Kevin Bacon