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Quotes About Wonder

Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention
~ John O'Donohue
Why, yes. I am a strange wonder. The most special of snowflakes! Born out of time, forever running to catch up to it!
~ Ryan Graudin, Invictus
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
~ John Glenn
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
~ Sean Penn
It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
~ Damian Lewis
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
~ Loren Eiseley
"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
~ Richard Dawkins
We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.
~ Jostein Gaarder
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.
~ Walt Disney
Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?
~ Claire Morgan
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.
~ Suzanne Curchod
The branches of most of the trees were bare now. He had never minded bare trees. He could see the sky through them. He had often lain along a stout branch, gazing upward, dreaming of worlds beyond the one he inhabited.
~ Mary Balogh
It was so beautiful that she could scarcely bear to look at it.
~ Mary Balogh
La naturaleza es una maravilla, ¿verdad? — dijo ella, sentándose en una roca de superficie plana y ordenando las conchas sobre la rodilla. —Siempre — convino él—, incluso cuando sus efectos son catastróficos para los seres humanos que han intentado dominarla o desafiarla. Es la quintaesencia del artista perfecto, y también sabe producir cosas tan frágiles y exquisitas como esas conchas.
~ Mary Balogh
Por qué todo lo maravilloso tiene que quedar atrás?, pensó. ¿Por qué tenía que haber tantos adioses en la vida?
~ Mary Balogh
I think she is the most beautiful creature I have ever set eyes upon
~ Mary Balogh
Curiosity demands satisfaction.
~ Mary Balogh
Awfully?" she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. "I am full of awe," he explained.
~ Mary Balogh
But it increased the pain tenfold to wonder if he did still retain some of his love for her. It seemed so cruel that they now lived close to each other, meeting with fair frequency, and both free, yet that they could never mean anything to each other.
~ Mary Balogh
I wonder where he can have gone and why. And I wonder if he plans to return soon. If I had only had an inkling of his going, Mr. Rowe returned, I should have backed him into the nearest corner, my love, and forced answers from him. As it is, I am afraid I cannot enlighten you.
~ Mary Balogh
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
I've been spending my life among flyspecks... while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 4th and Fairfax
~ Mary Chase
To my way of thinking, no one can live in the grandest cathedral on earth, the Rocky Mountains, and not know that there's someone bigger than man in charge of the world.
~ Mary Connealy