James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 2

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

Make your feet your friend.

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.