Nannies Quotes

• I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

  Leslie Caron

  Children, Kids, Two

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

  Anita Diament

  Grew Up, Mary, Wanted

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

  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Deep Understanding, Thanks, Tales

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• I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

  Peter Krause

  Children, Home, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Government, Expectations

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• I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

  Marlee Matlin

  Jobs, Husband, Law

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

  Toni Braxton

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

  Anjelica Huston

  Running, Atheism, Unhappy

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• The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

  Lorna Luft

  Air, Differences, Car

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• Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beer, Light, Two

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.155, Random House

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• 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

  Father, Thinking, Towns

  Interview with Andrew Marr, news.bbc.co.uk. March 28, 2010.

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• 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.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Home, Dinner

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

  Rand Paul

  People, Want, States

  "Tea Time". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2010.

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• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Voice, Doctors

  Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2014.

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• Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.

  Yiyun Li

  Mother, Opposites, Effort

  Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.151, Random House

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

  Harold MacMillan

  Cold, Economics, Said

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

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Teaching, Pretentious, Fluent

  "The Real Gwyneth". Interview with Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

  Andy Serkis

  Daughter, Mother, Kings

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• The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.

  Judith Warner

  Retirement, Writing, School

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

  Sybil Adelman

  Husband, Worry, Losing

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

  Ruby Wax

  Doors, House, Walks

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• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  Diora Baird

  Teacher, Party, School

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• Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when.

  Amy Poehler

  Kids, Night, Men

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Planning, States, Activism

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• Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the boy what he was doing he replied: 'I'm watching the man knocking holes in the darkness.' We live in a universe made dark by sin. Let's knock holes in the darkness.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Dark, Boys, Men

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