P. L. Travers Quotes

I assure you I haven’t been so surprised since Christopher Columbus discovered America — truly I haven’t!

she did a very odd thing. She broke off two of her fingers and gave one each to John and Barbara. And the oddest part of it was that in the space left by the broken-off fingers two new ones grew at once. Jane and Michael clearly saw it happen. “Only Barley-sugar – can’t possibly hurt ’em,

Some people,” remarked Mary Poppins, putting her down, “think a great deal too much. Of that I am sure.

She was wearing her blue coat with the silver buttons and the blue hat to match, and on the days when she wore these it was the easiest thing in the world to offend her.

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?

Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one — — ” murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children.

Carpet,” said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.

Sir Christopher Wren’s Cathedral

Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon

Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .

This was the only place in the Park that was never mown or weeded. Clover, daisies, buttercups, bluebells, grew as high as the children's waists. Nettles and dandelions flaunted their blossoms, for they knew very well that the Park Keeper would never have time to root them out. None of them observed the rules. They scattered their seeds across the lawns, hustled each other for the best places, and crowded together so closely that their stems were always in shadowy darkness.