Peter Pan Quotes (About Growing as a Child and Flying)

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Never say goodbye, according to Peter Pan quotes, because doing so implies moving on and forgetting. These quotations from Peter Pan contain Peter Pan quotations on maturing and Peter Pan quotations on flying.

Peter Pan Quotes (About Growing as a Child and Flying)

Peter Pan Quotes

Here are some quotes from the Walt Disney favorite, before it was made into a movie.

1. “There is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.” ― J.M. Barrie

2. “It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.” ― J.M. Barrie

3. “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?” ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

4. “She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

5. “Can anything harm us, Mother, after the night lights are lit?” Nothing, precious,” she said; “they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

6. “If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colors suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colors become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

7. “Just always be waiting for me.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

8. “I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?” ― J. M. Barrie,

9. “Pan, who and what art thou?” he cried huskily. “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

10. “Pan, who and what art thou?” he cried huskily. “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

11. “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that liked to grow up. In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

12. “Fairies have to be one thing or the other because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

13. “Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

14. “Wendy,” Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

15. “Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning. ” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

16. “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

17. “Dreams do come true if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

18. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

19. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Wendy Quotes

20. “All the world is made of faith, trust, and pixie dust.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

21. “Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

22. “Dreams do come true if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

23. “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

24. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

25. “You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” – ‘Peter Pan’.

26. “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

27. “Oh, the cleverness of me!” –  J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

28. “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that liked to grow up. In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

29. “Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

30. “When pirates and lost boys meet, they merely bite their thumbs at each other.” – ‘Peter Pan’.

31. “Fairies have to be one thing or the other because being so small they, unfortunately, have room for one feeling only at a time.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

32. “Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

33. “Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

34. “I’m youth, I’m joy.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

35. “But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

36. “If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling’s kiss.” –  J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

37. “It all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

38. “Wendy loved to lend her bracelet to her mother.” –  J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

39. “It is so naughty of him not to wipe his feet.” – Wendy Darling, ‘Peter Pan’.

40. “Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

41. “Oh no, he isn’t grown up, and he is just my size.” – Wendy Darling, ‘Peter Pan’.

42. “Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter.” –  J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

43. “Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

44. “Wendy, however, felt at once that she was in the presence of a tragedy.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

45. “That is not Nana’s unhappy bark, that is her bark when she smells danger.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

46. “She was not alarmed to see a stranger crying on the nursery floor; she was only pleasantly interested.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

47. “Wendy had danced with joy, just as the real Mrs. Darling must have done.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

48. “Wendy was quite surprised but interested; and she indicated in the charming drawing-room manner, by a touch on her night-gown, that he could sit nearer her.” –  J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

49. “Peter Pan has come and he is to teach us to fly.” – Wendy Darling, ‘Peter Pan’.

50. “Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of color here and there.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

Neverland Quotes

51. “That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

52. “She dreamt that the Neverland had come too near and that a strange boy had broken through from it.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

53. “If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

54. “Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

55. “But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

56. “On the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other’s nose, and so forth.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

57. “It is quite impossible to say how time does wear on in the Neverland…” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

58. “Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

59. “I don’t know how there was room for them, but you can squeeze very tight in the Neverland.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

60. “In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

61. “Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woken into life.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

62. “They drew near Neverland; for after many moons they did reach it.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’.

63. “Dreams do come true if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” – Peter Pan Quotes

64. “The second star to the right shines in the night for you, to tell you that the dreams you plan really can come true.” – Peter Pan Quotes

65. “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

66. “Think of all the joy you’ll find when you leave the world behind and bid your cares goodbye.”

67. “It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

68. “Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we’ve ever dreamed.”

69. “I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?” – Peter Pan Quotes

70. “I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

71. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

72. “Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” – Peter Pan Quotes

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

74. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”

75. “Come with me, where dreams are born and time is never planned.” – Peter Pan Quotes

76. “I have the strangest feeling that I’ve seen that ship since a long time ago when I was very young.”

77. “Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.”

78. “I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it does not seem broken at all.”

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

80. “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that liked to grow up. In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” – Peter Pan Quotes

81. “Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”

82. “Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you’ll never, never have to worry about grown-up things again.” – Peter Pan Quotes

83. “Do you know…why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”

84. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

85. “Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came.”

86. “I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.”

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