Quotes About Wonder

I've grown to fond of the stars to be fearful of the night.

Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

Gardner R. Dozois

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I wish I had claws, just because how cool would that be?

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.

I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.

When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch.

I can't explain witchcraft.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

It is a beautiful thing to witness when my kids ask about the baby in my belly whenever I have been pregnant.

I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

'Lord of the Rings' was my jam. I was so depressed when I realized that I couldn't live in Middle-earth. And I was so sad when I was eleven and didn't get a letter from Hogwarts saying that I was going to be a wizard!