Quotes About Wonder

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Among life's cruellest truths is this one: wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition.

At times I wonder if the reason I have lost track of time is that I will know when to return not by a date, but when an emptiness is filled.

I wonder if he's Christ?" Everyone wondered about John the Baptist. "I baptize you with water," he answered. "The one who's coming is greater than I am. He'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire." John was speaking of Jesus.

Signorine, non è certo sotto le specie del vocabolario e della sintassi che la Letteratura inizia a sedurci. Ricordate semplicemente come le Lettere entrano nella nostra vita. Nella più tenera età, appena non ci viene più cantata la canzone che fa sorridere e addormentare il neonato, si apre l'era dei racconti. Il bambino li beve come prima beveva il latte. Pretende il seguito e la ripetizione dell'incanto; è un pubblico implacabile ed eccelso.

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world devoid of numbers. Every snowflake, unique as every number, tells us something about complexity. Perhaps that is why we will never tire of its wonder.

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

O ?emu još govore njeni paragrafi, prazne rubrike koje je ispisivala nevidljivim mastilom mašta de?aka?

This day is full of extraordinary things that you are missing. Wonderful sights, like the sun on your counterpane, the hairs on your cat's tail, the cracks in the paint on your radiator, the leaves piling up against the curve. Wonderful smells, wonderful sounds. Wonderful people. Wonderful opportunities. Today is wonderful. But perhaps you have lost your sense of wonder.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

We can be the people who either crush or cultivate our children's sense of awe as they enter a world that doesn't necessarily foster it. When we choose to experience wonder, we help our children retain the tools to keep doing so as they get older.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange tea and goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairs we greet one another in a wild profusion of words and wave farewell amidst the wonderment of air In the laughing times we know we are lucky In the quiet times we know that we are blessed And we will not be alone

The sky was overladen with stars. If you looked closely there were stars in the grass as well--dew turned to ice on the tips of grass blades.

Mjesec, sad velik na nebu, nije ih ni primijetio. Možda nije ni mogao. Možda njegovo lice i nije na strani koju smo oduvijek tako zvali. Kad promislite bolje, ne biste li i vi svoj pogled radije okrenuli zvijezdama?

Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel

As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited logic that all observed effects may have been wrought by Him in any one of an infinite number of omnipotent ways, and these ways, and these must ever evade mortal comprehension.

Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.

You and I, we're not tied to the groundNot falling but rising like rolling around Eyes closed above the rooftops Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars