Top 80 Nanny Quotes

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

I went to university in Leeds, and I graduated in 2016 and moved to London with the intention of applying to drama school. I was living at my friend’s house; then, I was working as a live-in nanny for a couple of months because I had nowhere else to live.

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.

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.

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.

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’m genuine and I’m available. I want people to be at their best. I want them to love and be loved to their fullest ability. My friends call me their relationship nanny, so we have a good time working through problems. Now, I don’t claim to be an expert, but I am a woman who has been through everything.

I had people in my life who didn’t give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

I used to be a nanny and the kids used to laugh at me when I’d say ‘Shall we paint something?’ They just wanted to go on their iPads.

I think that I’m lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn’t making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that.

I found out my baby was visiting Julie Chen a lot, from ‘The Talk’, and my nanny was just like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s Julie. We pop in on her all the time.’

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

My nanny usually leaves around 6 P. M. I take my kids, I give them a bath, I put them to bed.

When you hire a nanny, the question you ask yourself is, ‘What’s best for my precious child?’ And do you really want someone who feels that your motive in life is to minimize the amount you spend on your child?

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.

My real name is Elizabeth, but I had a nanny growing up who called me ‘Elizabeanie.’ So from 4 months old, my brothers were, like, ‘Let’s call her Beanie.’ To show people the validity of it, I always say that if I met the president, I would say, ‘Hi, my name is Beanie.’

A lot of the time I had a nanny. But I never felt like I didn’t come first. Mum always made time to be a mother. On weekends she would sit down next to me, hold my hand or sit me on her lap and make me talk about my week. She would continuously try to get to know me.

For my brother and I, Maureen was a key figure in our life. When we were little, we were probably closer to our nanny than to our parents.

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.

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.

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

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 do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

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.

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

My nanny took me in at 12 with my brother, who is a year younger than me. We’re the closest brothers you’ll ever meet.

My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

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

Well, generally, I don’t like sin taxes at all, because sin taxes and nanny state politics represent the government making a moral judgment on people’s individual choices.

My parents would dress us up in traditional Vietnamese clothing to go to school for heritage day. We have a Vietnamese nanny that my parents wanted us to have so we could stay in touch and know where we came from.

So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day.

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 pay our nanny more than I’m earning.

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

I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We’ve got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I’ve had incredible women around me in the business.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel I’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive. When we’ve looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it’s just been impossible. You just cannot get one.

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’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.

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

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.