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Quotes from Mary Poppins — P. L. Travers

1899–1996 Australia

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7 quotes

Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.

Mary Poppins (1934)

I always thought dancing improper; but it can't be since I myself am dancing.

Mary Poppins (1934)

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

Mary Poppins (1934)

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

Mary Poppins (1934)

If you are looking for Number Seventeen — and it is more than likely that you will be, for this book is all about that particular house — you will very soon find it.

Mary Poppins (1934)

It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. 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.

Mary Poppins (1934)

"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.
"Child and serpent, star and stone — all one."

Mary Poppins (1934)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: P. L. Travers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.