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Quotes About Wonder

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.
~ Marilynne Robinson
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
~ Mark Twain
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.
~ Mary Mapes Dodge
O God, how lovely still is life!
~ Friedrich Schiller
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
~ John Dyer
fearing nothing but the unknown in a world of mysterious wonder.
~ John Fante
Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more. They found out the following evening.
~ John Flanagan
Maybe we'll catch a dragon in a tadpole net.
~ John Flanagan
The question is," said Halt, glancing at Alyss, "what should we do with him?" She hesitated, then that wonderful smile spread over her face. "I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?
~ John Flanagan
I looked at his teeth. That's what people seem to do when they look at animals. They look at their teeth.
~ John Flanagan
Still the rain kept pouring, falling on my ears,And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain.
~ John Fogerty
She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: 'I wonder which is my lucky star!
~ John Galsworthy
Why did just my eyes adore you - Have you ever wondered that? well, as Hegel said, "Too fair to worship, too divine to love."...
~ John Geddes
have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...
~ John Geddes
everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...
~ John Geddes
I can't grasp the stars, but I love them – in the same way, I love you...
~ John Geddes
when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...
~ John Geddes
I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...
~ John Geddes
it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
~ John Geddes
my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...
~ John Geddes
don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...
~ John Geddes
I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
~ John Geddes
I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...
~ John Geddes
all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
~ John Geddes