Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anita Diament

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

Harold MacMillan

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

Laura Linney

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

Thomas Sowell

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Simon Hoggart

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.