Peter Pans Quotes

#1. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#2. Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.

David M. Knight

#4. All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was hard to bear the weight of partial revelations which refused to venture past the tip of his tongue.

Mark Helprin

#5. Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

Bob Marley

#6. Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.

Will Smith

#7. It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Lao-Tzu

#8. Nd as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages,
turning
its dark pages.

Denise Levertov

#9. Those guys who wore a wedding ring that didn't really look like a wedding ring - or maybe it wasn't a wedding ring at all and he was just super-proud of his Celtic

Donna Tartt

#10. History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Peter Esterhazy

#11. You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

H.G.Wells