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Quotes About Wonder

My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.
~ Mohammad Azharuddin
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
~ Keith O'Brien
Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.
~ Akiva Schaffer
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.
~ John Burnside
American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
~ Lincoln Chafee
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
~ Clyde Tombaugh
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
~ Cate Blanchett
Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
~ Adam Levine
When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.
~ Ilaiyaraaja
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
~ Hanna Rosin
Sometimes I wonder if I loved anybody, and yet I think of all the tears I shed and the heartache. It was all such a waste of time.
~ June Brown
I wonder what it would have been like if I could actually sing.
~ Ad-Rock
I sometimes stop and wonder if I have a superhumanly high pain threshold and I just don't know it... But then I stub my toe and think probably not.
~ Alice Levine
There's this amplification that happens anytime you tell a story. You let it go out into the world. It's the most beautiful thing. All I can do is look at it in wonder and amazement.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.
~ Julia Leigh
I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.
~ Gioconda Belli
As the finish line for 2017 begins to come into focus, I'm beginning to wonder what an Uber turnaround would look like.
~ Adam Lashinsky
The commissioning of the Kaleshwaram project, a man-made wonder, in record time has invited global attention.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
~ Dennis Potter
Wonder is involuntary praise.
~ Edward Young
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
~ Ben Okri
Being hummed at by someone with magic hands while they knead your neck is good for the soul, but it won't make you giggle for days afterwards. In fact, the second the smiley therapist stops and says, 'You can put your robe on now, the hour is up,' the joy and wonder sort of leaves the room.
~ Claudia Winkleman