James M. Barrie Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Years

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.86, 谷月社

• Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

  James M. Barrie

  Strength, Children, Passion

  "The Little Minister". Book by James Matthew Barrie, p. 143, 1891.

• All children, except one, grow up.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Growing Up, Neverland

  Peter and Wendy ch. 1 (1911)

• There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Boys, Sight

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.125, 谷月社

• All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

• 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.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Eye

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.15, 谷月社

• ..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Believe, Fall

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.21, 谷月社

• On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Land, Play

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.4, 谷月社

• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Lonely, Children

• It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Pain, Love You

  Peter and Wendy ch. 8 (1911)

• All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Boys, Men

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

• Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Selfish, Heartless

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.86, 谷月社

• ...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Gay, Long

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.157, Jazzybee Verlag

• And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.

  James M. Barrie

  Dream, Children, Husband

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.145, Jazzybee Verlag

• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

• She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Running, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.101, 谷月社

• It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Tinkerbell, Fairy

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.96, Jazzybee Verlag

• They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Desert, Novelty

• Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Father, Adventure

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

• The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Heaven, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

• Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

  James M. Barrie

  Wise, Mother, Children

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

• Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

  James M. Barrie

  Courage, Children, Lovely

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