Pl Travers Mary Poppins Quotes

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

There was something strange and extraordinary about her – something that was frightening and at the same time most exciting.

I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!

What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this—that to think a thing is to make it true.

Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .

Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.

We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us—the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star—we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.