Quotes About Wonder

See! There's so much to be excited about, if you let yourself be.

But then maybe i don't want to know. Maybe it;s nicer not knowing.

Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.

Jenny Nimmo

The husband sets up their old telescope. There is almost no light pollution here. The wife looks up at the sky. There are more stars than anyone could ever need.

A few days later the baby sees the garden hose come on and we hear her laughing. All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said. Later, when it's time to go to bed, she puts both legs in one side of her footy pajamas and slyly waits for us to notice.

What Singer said: I wonder what these people thought thousands of years ago of these sparks they saw when they took off their woolen clothes?

I closed my eyes and listened to it. Who is this person? I wondered.

She ran her hands across the bark, imagining herself at the foot of some planet-traversing colossus who was standing still to allow her up for a visit.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

Logan followed my gaze. "I wonder if there'll be stars where I'm going." "If there aren't now, there will be once you show up.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

She laughed, and the desert sang.

It felt like ink and stars and magic, and I never wanted it to end.

I let the fireflies lead the way, dancing just ahead of me, sparkling as I passed and then dimming to nothing.

he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.

It never occurred to him to wonder how there could be so many people, so many shifting groups that he only saw once in so small a village. Not matter how many such scenes played out, he didn't wonder -- for Henry had become a very particular sort of person. He had been groomed to be a person who did not ask questions. He had not been told to be that way, but all the same he had been led to it, and now that he was there, he felt a great comfort.

However, out in the world I have come to see that he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.

At all times all parts of the world are eternally fascinating.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

I know you're OK in your own. I've always been OK on my own, too. I guess I still would be if you don't ... I'll survive, anyway. I just wondered whether we might be OK together. I thought we might be more than OK. I thought we might be happy.

The challenge for all of us in this day and age is to distinguish between the merely surprising and the truly amazing.

Das wäre ja gelacht', dachte Jonathan Trotz, 'wenn das Leben nicht schön wäre!