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  • I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

  • 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.

  • Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his eyebrows. "You did?""He did not," Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. "I threw him down the stairs."Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. "Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.

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

    "The Real Gwyneth". Interview with Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.
  • Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.29, Random House
  • I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

    Children   Years   People  
    "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.
  • I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.

    Hate   Fall   Fabric  
    Christopher Fowler (2010). “The Victoria Vanishes: (Bryant and May Book 6)”, p.248, Random House
  • Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

  • 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.

    Dark   Boys   Men  
  • Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

  • 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.

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

    People   Nannies   Want  
    "Tea Time". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2010.
  • The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

    Nannies   Shapes  
  • No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

    Max Lucado (2014). “Dad Time: Savoring the God-Given Moments of Fatherhood”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

    Memories   People   Age  
  • It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

  • 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.

    "Temple Grandin on her struggles and ‘yak yaks’" by Joan Raymond, www.nbcnews.com. February 02, 2010.
  • Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

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

  • It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

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

    Husband   Worry   Nannies  
  • 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?

    Girl   Night   Heaven  
    Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
  • We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.

    Kindness   Air   Giving  
  • 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.

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

    Nannies   Grew Up   Mary  
  • I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

    Believe   Ems   Nannies  
  • 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.

  • Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

    "Maskerade". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1995.
  • Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

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