I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIESo 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!
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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For when you looked into my mother’s eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world – it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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