Home / Quotes / Quote by P. L. Travers

Quote by P. L. Travers

“Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.”

Quote by P. L. Travers

Book:Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection

Work

Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection

This collection includes the original Mary Poppins novels, accompanied by additional content and illustrations to commemorate the enduring popularity of the character and her adventures. more

Author

P. L. Travers, born Phyllis Lillian Travers, was an English novelist best known for her creation of the 'Mary Poppins' series. Her works, which have been adapted into the famous film 'Mary Poppins,' are celebrated for their unique style and deep insight into the psychology of children. more

You May Also Like

“For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.”

Thinking Looks Answers Goes On Grateful Glad I Am Grateful

Author:P. L. Travers

“Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?”

Author:P. L. Travers

“The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.”

Heart Body Life Is Blood Color Red Colour Covered Modest Pulse Explicit Implicit

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.”

World Children Stills Faces Young Hours Rich Sky Poet Wind Flower Spring Sacred Prophet Midst Showers Unseen Grey Mystic Unborn Old World Forlorn

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.”

Values Father Change Results Sake Our Father

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.”

Light Sky Shining Clouds Sunshine Illumination Luminous Radiance Majestic Moonshine

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch.”

Sun Hell Angel Patches Hells Angels

Author:Sonny Barger

“The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.”

Who I Am I Have Learned Simplest I Am Who I Am

Author:Sonny Barger

“My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.”

Said Highest Commodity Credo

Author:Sonny Barger

“Treat me good, I'll treat you better, treat me bad and I'll treat you worse.”

Author:Sonny Barger