“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from 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.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Mary Poppins,” he cried, “you’ll never leave us, will you?”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it was.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“There they were, all together, up in the air”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“This is your new nurse, Mary Poppins.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Well, au revoir, one and all.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“So it was settled, and that was how the Banks family came to live at Number Seventeen, with Mrs. Brill to cook for them,”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Robertson Ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Don’t you know,” she said pityingly, “that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Miss Lark had two gates. One was for Miss Lark’s friends and relations, and the other for the Butcher and the Baker and the Milkman. Once the Baker made a mistake and came in through the gate reserved for the friends and relations, and Miss Lark was so angry that she said she wouldn’t have any more bread ever.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Pooh, he’s a ninkypoop!” “How do you know?” asked Jane, very interested. “I know because I heard Daddy call him one this morning!” said Michael, and he laughed at Andrew very rudely. “He is not a nincompoop,” said Mary Poppins. “And that is that.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. 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.” “But”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Oh, go away! You're in my eyes," said John in a loud voice.
"Sorry!" said the sunlight. "I must move from East to West in a day. Sorry! Shut your eyes and you won't see me.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Carpet,” said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Why,” said Jane, “there’s nothing in it!” “What do you mean—nothing?” demanded Mary Poppins, drawing herself up and looking as though she had been insulted. “Nothing in it, did you say?” And with that she took out from the empty bag a starched white apron and tied it round her waist. Next she unpacked a large cake of Sunlight Soap, a toothbrush, a packet of hairpins, a bottle of scent, a small folding armchair and a box of throat lozenges.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“were spilt on his bib, Jane and Michael could tell that the substance in the spoon this time was milk. Then Barbara had her share, and she gurgled and licked the spoon twice. Mary Poppins then poured out another dose and solemnly took it herself. “Rum punch,” she said, smacking her lips and corking the bottle. Jane’s eyes and Michael’s popped with astonishment, but they were not given much time to wonder, for Mary Poppins, having put the miraculous bottle on the mantelpiece, turned to them. “Now,” she said, “spit-spot into bed.” And she began to undress them. They noticed that whereas buttons and hooks had needed all sorts of coaxing from Katie Nanna, for Mary Poppins they flew apart almost at a look. In less than a minute they found themselves in bed and watching, by the dim light from the night-light, the rest of Mary Poppins’s unpacking being performed. From the carpet bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers
Born place: in Maryborough, Australia
Born date August 9, 1899
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“America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic — the res-publica — has been settled, it is time to look after the res-privata, — the private state, — to see, as the Roman senate charged its consuls, "ne quidres-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Life Without Principle
“هيموا وراء الجمال واتبعوه وان قادكم الى شفا الهاوية.اجلا اتبعوهاوان كان ذا جناح وأنتم لا جناح لكم , ابتعوه وان انتهى بكم الى الهاوية , اتبعوه فان افتقدتم الجمال افتقدتم كل شئ”
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Garden of The Prophet
“you can simply buy wonderful companies at reasonable prices, and let those companies compound cash over long periods of time. Surprisingly, there aren’t all that many money managers who follow this strategy, even though it’s the one used by some of the world’s most successful investors. (Warren Buffett is the best-known.)”
― quote from The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments
“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you to show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. Matthew 5:44–45”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness
“It will finish badly when she dries out, I suppose, and probably end with madness, but almost everything does.”
― Tom Piccirilli, quote from A Choir of Ill Children
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