Quotes About Wonder

Perhaps some things should remain mysteries and are better kept in our hearts. We should not try to explain them.

Jack opened his eyes. They were wearing their own clothes again. A lightning bug blinked inside the growing darkness of the tree house. Annie picked up Morgan's note. She repeated the rhyme: To find a special magic, You must

Leonardo da Vinci: And now my friends I know the secret. Jack: You do? Leonardo da Vinci: Yes, the secret to happiness is available to all of us, every hour of every day. Young, old, rich, poor — everyone can choose to find happiness in this way. Annie: How? What's the secret? Leonardo da Vinci: Curiosity

white horse galloped out of the dust. The crowd murmured with excitement and wonder. The white horse was the most beautiful animal Jack had ever seen. He was pulling an empty chariot. And he was galloping straight toward Jack.

Mary Pope Osborne

What kind of spell do you think Teddy is under?" said Annie. "Who knows?" said Jack.

Perhaps some things should remain mysteries and are better kept in our hearts. We should not try to explain them. (p. 86)

Reading is a passport to countless adventures

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. What use, he replied, is a newborn baby?

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

What's different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring.

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute. Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, What a sight to behold!

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Death doesn't have to be boring.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

I logged millions of miles with this body, and I hope you do the same with yours. The world is astonishing.

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

What may not be expected in a country of eternal light

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.