Mary Poppins Quotes

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

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
― Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left.”
― Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

“Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale."
"She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Opens the Door

“Adrian was like a sexy, scary Mary Poppins.”
― Temple West

“As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down.”
― Irene Ziegler

“I'll stay till the wind changes.”
― P. L. Travers

“His (Walt Disney's) favorite song, 'Feed the Birds' from Mary Poppins. The lyrics give insight into Walt's benevolence--his belief that small kindnesses go a long way. Disney Legend and lyricist Robert Sherman once explained the sentiment: ' Doing just a little extra and going just a little bit out of your way to make someone feel special. Sometimes it makes all the difference in the world to a person.'

Come feed the little birds, show them you care
And you'll be glad if you do
Their young ones are hungry, their nest are so
bare
All it takes is tuppence from you....

When the song was finished, Walt would say under his breath, as an aside to himself, 'Yup, That's what it's all about.'
Robert overheard that whisper and concluded, 'I do think this song summed him up. He was a simple man---a simple, wonderful man who understood that the greatest gift life bestows upon a person is the chance to share with others.”
― Marcy Carriker Smothers, Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food

“At the Zoo? Me? A quiet, orderly person who knows that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise?”
― P. L. Travers

“One and one makes two,' she declared. 'And two halves make a whole. And Faithful Friends should be together, never kept apart.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins in the Park

“What's the good of knowing if you don't tell anyone?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag!”
― P. L. Travers

“None of your business," snapped Mary Poppins. "And it's rude to whisper.”
― P. L. Travers

“Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!”
― P. L. Travers

“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”
― Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman

“Yeah, they looked at you like you are too good to be true. Obviously, they’ll find out that you are just like Mary Poppins—practically perfect in every way.” She giggled.”
― Jennifer Peel, Christmas at Valentine Inn

“Humor is the spoonful of sugar that helps the philosophical medicine go down.”
― George Hammond