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Quotes About Wonder

Trumpets! Lightnings! The earth trembles! But into the Virgin's womb thou didst descent with noiseless tread.
~ Agathias Scholasticus
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
~ Agnes Repplier
A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?
~ Aileen Fisher
like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight
~ Aimé Césaire
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
~ Aimee Bender
Someplace that feels impossible - as impossible as time travel.
~ Aimee Friedman
I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.
~ Aimee Friedman
It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.
~ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
God I am Grateful today, for all things that cash can't buy! What would Life be without eyes to see! Wonder, without music, how Happy could I be? Thank you Lord, are words I say, every moment on this Grateful day.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Man has invented Google, through which anything we can find, but have YOU ever wondered, who Created the Mind?
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
We are searching for Life on the stars, but we haven't studied the flowers. While Life is right here, in you and me, we are looking for it on Mars!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Fidelitatea mea nu datoreaz? nimic unei hot?râri, totul se datoreaz? uimirii permanente. Nu ?tiu dac? dragostea ve?nic? exist?, dar ?tiu c? exist? fiin?e infinit demne de a fi iubite.
~ Alain Finkielkraut
en esta noche en este mundo donde todo es posible salvo el poema
~ Alajandra Pizarnik
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
~ Alan Alda
Well, even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so he got cautiously up and looked about him.
~ Alan Alexander Milne
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.
~ Alan Ball
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
~ Alan Bennett
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
~ Alan Bennett
But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all.
~ Alan Cumming
How was he standing on top of the water, but still moving?
~ Alan Gratz
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
~ Alan Perlis
eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar
~ Alan Russell
Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.
~ Alan Watt