Peter Medawar Quotes

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

As the world changes, the way we work changes with it.

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this for much longer.'

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults when I was a kid probably felt the same way.

There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And I'm like, 'For the same reason that I don't play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.' It's like, 'I'm a grown-up.' I wrote that music when I was a kid.

I think people don't really like change.

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

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.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.