Top 40 Mary Travers Quotes
#1. I recognize I have faults. I'm accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it's unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don't watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.
George Zimmerman
#2. Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.
Mary Travers
#3. Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.
Vicki Pettersson
#4. We hadn't sung together in six years. We realized that we'd missed each other personally and musically, so we decided to try a limited reunion tour. We wanted to work together enough to have it be a meaningful part of our lives, but not so much that it wouldn't be fun.
Mary Travers
#5. I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
P.L. Travers
#6. Looking out at this quarter of a million people, ... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.
Mary Travers
#7. Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.
Mary Travers
#8. She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!
P.L. Travers
#9. I want more. I need more. I want to be the one - the only one in your life. I want you need to me. I want you to pine for me. I want to own every single part of you. I want your mind, body, and heart to be exclusively and implicitly mine.
Courtney Lane
#10. When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
Burt Rutan
#11. Pooh, he's a ninkypoop!" "How do you know?" asked Jane, very interested. "I know because I heard Daddy call him one this morning!" said Michael, and he laughed at Andrew very rudely. "He is not a nincompoop," said Mary Poppins. "And that is that.
P.L. Travers
#12. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.
P.L. Travers
#13. Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.
V. I. Arnold
#14. All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
Mary Travers
#15. I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
P.L. Travers
#16. Mary Poppins," he cried, "you'll never leave us, will you?
P.L. Travers
#17. Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind's eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect
Yaa Gyasi
#18. I loved 'Burning Love,' and I really do love almost everything Paul Scheer touches.
Kristen Schaal
#19. I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
Rachel Kushner
#20. It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.
Mary Travers
#21. As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.
David Shi
#22. Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#23. Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale."
"She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true.
P.L. Travers
#24. We've always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that's clean.
Mary Travers
#25. I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.
Amanda Plummer
#26. Always begin with the end in mind.
Ellen Muth
#27. I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.
Mary Travers
#28. Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
Geneen Roth
#29. When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.
Mary Travers
#30. Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .
P.L. Travers
#32. Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
P.L. Travers
#34. If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we're going to have to start with children.
Mary Travers
#35. There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.
Mary Travers
#36. 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
#37. I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.
Joan Rivers
#38. I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.
Mary Travers
#39. I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
Mira Sorvino
#40. It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
Mary Travers
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