Nannies Quotes - Page 2

• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Christmas, People, Car

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• 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

  Character, Kids, Wife

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• It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  California, Southern, Actors

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

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Proud, States

  "From Third World to First, The Singapore Story: 1965-2000". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2000.

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• Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.

  Jenny Mollen

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

  Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

  Molly Ivins

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

  Jean Liedloff

  Teacher, Children, Years

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• 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.

  Gillian Anderson

  Mom, Opportunity, People

  "As the X-files Ends, I Realise How Much". The Express, June 07, 2002.

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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. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Children, Silly

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• I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Running, Animal, Two

  "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• 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.

  Marisol Nichols

  Rain, Late, Going To Work

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

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

  Travis Barker

  Children, Kids, Want

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• But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

  Stevie Nicks

  Running, Baby, Children

  "Stevie Nicks in Her Own Words". Interview with Cynthia McFadden, abcnews.go.com. September 7.

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• 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."

  Johnny Carson

  Book, Goats, Film

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• 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.

  Felix Dennis

  Safety, Modern, States

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• I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Lunch, Breakfast

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• I've always had amazing women in my life help me with my kids. First it was my mom, and then a series of nannies and day care providers who were incredibly patient, kind, and loving. There is no blueprint - I think we all feel our way through it and just do the best we can, and it turns out that children are open to love from many different places and are pretty resilient, too.

  Jane Park

  Mom, Children, Kids

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I just want my child to have security and being looked after by me, by my other half, by my mother and by a nanny. We all share that responsibility equally and I think he is a very well-adjusted little boy.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Bananas, Spelling, Know How

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• Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Night, Heaven

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Sound, Tin

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.188, Random House

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• 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.

  Vanilla Ice

  Girl, Mom, Two

  "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

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

  Gregory Maguire

  Color, Ugly, Humans

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now.

  Mark Millar

  Running, Team, Thinking

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