Quotes About Nanny

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

His sister's transformation from aging tart to fussing nanny seemed almost instantaneous

I've got a really good network that includes friends who all had babies within eight weeks of each other, plus my sister, a lovely part-time nanny and a nursery where Orla goes for half days.

I have had moments where I've felt like, 'I'm going to feel a little guilty if I don't put the baby down for her nap today, but I really need to go to that spin class. And that's good for my health and my mental well-being, so I think the nanny can put her down for her nap, and I'm going to be OK with that.'

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

A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.

A trained assassin who babysits.

I was an investigative reporter for the Soho Star, a radical weekly with an office on lower Broadway. I spent my working hours hunting down obnoxious landlords, highlighting cultural offenses against blacks and homosexuals, and seeking out corruption in any official who did not believe in the state as a sort of Nanny Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to fund its infantilizing care for the poor.

And he thought for a moment how stupid our society had become, that its nanny-like concern for risk should prevent one man helping another to take a dead friend up the steps

WHEN THEY SAT down to dinner, Hawksworth looked twice into his soup bowl—belly up, soft and white, tiny little feet, spiny back, sleepy eyes. "Excuse me," he said. "But there seems to be a hedgehog in my soup." "There you are, you naughty—" Beatrix's expression melted with love, and she smiled. "Oh, how cute. Nanny is having a nice warm soak.

I'd love to look incredibly glamorous, but I am a wholesome, comforting nanny type: I think I look like an advertisement for wholemeal flour or something.

We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny. Like Mary Poppins? suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition. Not one bit like that fly-by-night woman, Nanny said with a sniff. It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar!

I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.

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

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.

Nanny McBride," she said with a straight face. His old nanny. His eyes flew open. "Nanny McBride?" "I'm sure she'd be much better than I am at administering a good whipping. Yes, I can just see Nanny McBride in a red French corset with black lace—" "Stop!" he roared. He shuddered. "That's an image that's going to stick in my mind forever. Horrible.

So there I was, lying on the ground, totally concealed from the Temujai, when a nanny goat started to chew my hair.

I didn't expect to be so comfortable handing my child off to a nanny without getting any of her information. As soon as she arrived at my house, I threw my baby in her arms and went to Target.

In his book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift, Paul Rahe writes, Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs. But today the state cocoons one's own affairs so thoroughly as to remove almost all responsibility from modern life, and much of human dignity with it. And, if personal consequences have been all but abolished, societal consequences are harder to dodge...A society of children cannot survive, no matter how all-embracing the government nanny.

When its time to go off to work, or work out, I have a great support system: a great nanny and friends who offer to help out whenever they can.

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.