Quotes About Wonder

Why were you born when the snow was falling?

He pointed a finger at the sky. 'What?' said Robin, looking up into the blue haze. 'If you look carefully,' said Strike, 'you might just see an asteroid passing through the house of bollocks.

Just for a moment, as he pulled himself back inside the Land Rover, Strike wondered where he'd be if he lived to eighty, and who'd be there with him.

She ran to the window to catch every sunset, each one a miracle, different every day, entrancing long after darkness had sucked the last ounce of color out of the indigo sky.

We wonder at good things, are appalled by evil. What's wondering got in common with being appalled? That strange combination, that surprise duet of disbelief and acknowledgement. You can't believe that any human being would open up with an assault gun in a trolley, but look over there--right there!--there's somebody doing it.

From galactic silence protect us.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

Some asked how pearls did grow, and where?Then spoke I to my girlTo part her lips, and showed them thereThe quarelets of pearl.

Think of the wonderful chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine tragedy of Hamlet.

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well." – Mark 7:37

I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. – Habakkuk 1:5 NIV

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. – Psalm 19:1

He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. – Psalm 147:4

The shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delightOf birdsong at morning and starshine at night.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

him. He spent more than three hours in the Uffizi Gallery, staring in wonder at its famous works of art. His entourage tried to keep him moving. Behind him, Mussolini, who had never willingly stepped foot in an art museum in his life,1 muttered in exasperation, "Tutti questi quadri…"—"All these paintings…"2 But Adolf Hitler would not be hurried.

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle!