Top 56 Poppins Quotes
#1. I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.
Dick Van Dyke
#3. I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
Anita Diament
#4. 'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
Richard Eyre
#5. As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down.
Irene Ziegler
#6. Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale."
"She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true.
P.L. Travers
#7. Cleaning?" "Like Mary Poppins on crack. You know, the way women do that fast-forward cleaning when they're pissed off.
Suzanne Wright
#8. A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look at her ... and that was it. The man who "loved to laugh" in Mary Poppins had nothing on us.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#10. Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.
James Fadiman
#11. Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .
P.L. Travers
#12. I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
Julie Andrews
#13. I look at Danny. If I'd thrown a torn-up wishlist into a fireplace, he's the guy Mary Poppins would have delivered.
Sally Thorne
#14. Right. And I'm Mary Poppins. Wait while I get my umbrella, so I can beat you to death with it for never giving me a straight answer to anything. Cut the crap. Give it to me straight.
Pippa DaCosta
#15. 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
#17. the concept of Mary Poppins is even stronger, implying a secure childhood and an answer to women's perennial problem: how to balance their lives between their needs and their family's demands.
Valerie Lawson
#18. Adrian was like a sexy, scary Mary Poppins.
Temple West
#19. I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
Dick Van Dyke
#20. I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer.
Nikki Blonsky
#21. I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
Carol Burnett
#22. 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
#23. I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music ... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal!
Ashley Jensen
#24. Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins, and no matter how many spoonfuls of sugar I eat, action figures won't march into a bin with the snap of my fingers.
Barbara Brooke
#25. I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.
Todd Haynes
#26. At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.
Jenny McCarthy
#27. 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
#28. Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.
Helen Fielding
#29. If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.
Nathan Lane
#30. If you need a reference point, she was created in a grandma lab somewhere by crossing the DNA of Mary Poppins, Jack Black, Julia Child and Desmond Tutu.
Scott Dannemiller
#31. You'd better, because if you've left him with anyone other than Mary fucking Poppins, there won't be enough left of you to fill a juice glass.
~Wraith
Larissa Ione
#32. Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins.
Terry Eagleton
#33. We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny."
Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition.
Not one bit like that fly-by-night woman," Nanny said with a sniff. "It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar!
Lois Lowry
#34. 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
#35. Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.
Riff Raff
#36. Her purse is like Mary Poppins's bag - it holds way more than should be possible.
Tera Lynn Childs
#37. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.
Steve Kluger
#38. She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!
P.L. Travers
#39. Every time I thought the bag must be empty, he brought yet another item out. It was like he'd hijacked Mary Poppins's luggage on her way to a fetish weekend.
Abigail Barnette
#40. The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
Anita Diament
#41. But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.
P.L. Travers
#42. As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.
Milton Jones
#43. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.
P.L. Travers
#44. 'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.
Dick Van Dyke
#45. From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.
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Rachel Cohn
#46. 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
#47. I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it.
Willa Holland
#48. She's kind of like a Mary Poppins just before she turns to the dark side of the Force," Oberon said. He was still behind the counter, but he had a good lok at her as she exited. "Let go of your anger, Malina! There's still good in you! The Emperor hasn't driven it from you fully!
Kevin Hearne
#49. Also, why did Mary Poppins even need such a huge bag if it's magically designed to fit everything? Seriously. I'm guessing that Mary asked for a magic pocket and the wizards were like, "What, like a dude? Nah. I don't think so, lady. You'll get a purse." Those guys were motherfuckers.
Jenny Lawson
#50. 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
#51. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood, or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.
Rachel Cohn
#52. Howdy-hi, she sings. As usual, she's over-the-top bubbly-like Mary Poppins
A.G. Howard
#53. I want my pockets to be like a TARDIS, or Mary Poppins's carpetbag.
Jenny Lawson
#55. Mary Poppins," he cried, "you'll never leave us, will you?
P.L. Travers
#56. You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.
Janina Gavankar