Mary Poppins Quotes

“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, 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, Mary Poppins

“I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins”
― P.L. Travers, 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, Mary Poppins

“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.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“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, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“I’ll stay till the wind changes,” she said”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“Mary Poppins,” he cried, “you’ll never leave us, will you?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“There they were, all together, up in the air”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“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, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“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, Mary Poppins

“Good-bye,” said Michael to the Bird Woman. “Feed the Birds,” she replied, smiling. “Good-bye,” said Jane. “Tuppence a Bag!” said the Bird Woman and waved her hand.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it was.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Don’t you know,” she said pityingly, “that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“She’s something special, you see. Not in the matter of looks, of course. One of my own day-old chicks is handsomer than Mary P. ever was——”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“You must be very old!” said Jane,”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Mary Poppins sighed with pleasure, however, when she saw three of herself, each wearing a blue coat with silver buttons and a blue hat to match. She thought it was such a lovely sight that she wished there had been a dozen of her or even thirty. The more Mary Poppins the better.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“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, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Well, au revoir, one and all.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“This is your new nurse, Mary Poppins.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“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, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“Mary Poppins walked down the garden path and opened the gate. Once outside in the Lane, she set off walking very quickly as if she were afraid the afternoon would run away from her if she didn’t keep up with it. At the corner she turned to the right and then to the left, nodded haughtily to the Policeman, who said it was a nice day, and by that time she felt that her Day Out had begun.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“She’s saying it! She’s saying it!” cried Jane, holding tight to herself for fear she would break in two with delight. And she was saying it. The Bird Woman was there and she was saying it. “Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag! Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag! Feed the Birds, Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag, Tuppence a Bag!”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children

“The Dolphins were after it in a second, two dark striving shapes rippling through the water. Jane and Michael could hardly breathe. Which would win the prize? Or would the prize escape?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: A Classic Fantasy Tale About the Magical Nanny and Everyday Wonder for Children