P. L. Travers Quotes

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

P. L. Travers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996

Topics

LifeFatherManChildMeMy Life

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Tommy Douglas

BirdWalkOceanManFlyFish

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

Roger Waters

WorldLoudestFansIstanbulFound

Millennials are the experiences generation.

Julia Hartz

GenerationMillennialsExperiences

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

Jaron Lanier

GreatPeopleKnowYoungYoung People

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

David Shields

NatureArtNarrativeLinesAlong

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Courtney Barnett

PeopleCoolDoingThriveYouSee

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

Brad Dourif

FunHave FunYouKnowTryOut

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Arthur E. Morgan

LoveFaithHopeStrong

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

SupportPeopleCharityLongMeeting

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

Alison Lohman

StrengthIdentityChallengesThink

I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.

Preston Sturges

LifeWaveGoDonePossessionsAlong

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

Petra Nemcova

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