Quotes About Wonder

Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning. When the sky lightened, when the birds awoke, I knew I would never again see anything so splendid as the round red sun coming up over the earth.

It seemed marvelous to see life pump through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noises, milk eyes—much as life pumped through me.

Trecutul era o p?dure mare, foarte frumoas?, unde cât vedeai cu ochii, se încruci?au ramurile acelor arbori care coborau pân? la noi.

It's amazing that God lavishes so much attention to detail in a body that won't last, but He does that everywhere: in that tiny, delicate, finely veined alpine flower that quivers in the mountain chill and then fades and dies, as well as in my body. I am a wonder!

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas everyday!

Certain attacks brought him so close to death that I wonder how he escaped it, what imperceptible shock—coming from whom?—pushed him back from the brink.

Si on pouvait seulement aller jusqu'au premier peuplier ! Le voilà ; puis le deuxième, le troisième !

Lord, what fools these mortals be! Wonder on till truth make all things plain A foolish heart, that I leave here behind I know a bank where the wild thyme blows If we shadows have offended She'd

I wondered how it was that a newspaper that had laid off or bought out so many people had the wherewithal to give me a raise and throw me a party at an expensive restaurant. I wanted to ask, but I decided that would sound both rude and ungrateful. So for once in my life, I forced myself to swallow my curiosity.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more!

And a cloud of enraptured, sporting, buzzing little creatures of silk-dust swept or hovered over the undulating picture.

[H]e ran, he stopped—he dipped his glowing face into the cloud of blossoming bushes, and would fain lose himself in the humming world between the leaves; he pressed the scratched face into the deep, cooling grass, and hung delirious on the breast of the immortal mother of Spring.

Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods!

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Nel, after throwing a stone onto a sloping bank watching the stone rolling said, 'Look at the stone. It's afraid of the grass

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

Peut-être, le temps passant, la question première : « D'où ça vient les enfants ? » laisse-t-elle la place à celle-ci : « D'où ça nous vient, nos pensées ? »

comme beaucoup de Marseillais, les récits de voyages me comblaient plus que les voyages eaux-mêmes / come molti marsigliesi, i racconti di viaggi mi incantavano più dei viaggi stessi.

Cada noche se decía: "Debe ser menos hermosa de lo que creo, es mi imaginación que se desboca", y cada noche se desmentía y la encontraba más bonita que el día anterior.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.