Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
P. L. TraversI 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. TraversIf you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
P. L. TraversWho are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon." Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?" The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.
P. L. Travers