Quotes About Wonder

Life never quits being thought provoking and mysterious.

From that day forward, I saw more beauty in the world than I had ever seen before. I cherished every moment, found joy in the tiniest pleasures, for I understood this amazing gift called life.

Life is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works.

Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.

Everyone needed a reminder to simply look at things and enjoy them, without labeling them.

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

the hill. "Gosh," she murmured,

It was nearly sunset when, after passing through a thirty-mile stretch of olive groves, they crested a hill and began to descend toward the edge of the earth. That was how it looked to Andras, who had never before seen the sea. As they drew closer it became a vast plain of liquid metal, a superheated infinity of molten bronze.....They reached a stretch of sand just as the red lozenge of the sun dissolved into the horizon.

Unicorn Island

The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know.

Barn swallows, like phoebes, are worth it. Watch swallows skim low over the lawn in the sidelight of a summer evening; watch a phoebe whirl out to snap up a passing crane fly, then fetch up on a dead branch, and then imagine the scene without their spark.

Anderswo, morgen, das sind für Sie immer noch magische Worte. Aber sie werden entdecken: anderswo, das ist hier, und morgen haben wir bereits.

I don't know whether there are numbers. And you?

How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.

No te voy a cansar con más poemas. Digamos que te dije nubes, tijeras, barriletes, lápices, y acaso alguna vez sonreíste.

Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

No me parece que la luciérnaga extraiga mayor suficiencia del hecho incontrovertible de que es una de las maravillas de este circo, y sin embargo basta suponerle una consciencia para comprender que cada vez que se le encandila la barriguita el bicho de luz debe sentir como una cosquilla de privilegio. De la misma manera a la Maga le encantaban los líos inverosímiles en los que andaba metida siempre por causa del fracaso de las leyes en su vida.

Lo verdaderamente nuevo da miedo o maravilla.

De ce atât de departe de zei? Poate fiindc? ne punem intrebarea.

Chuva, chuva. Continuaria Berthe Trépat tocando piano?

Cuando me di cuenta de que estaba vestido de blanco en pleno invierno me pregunté si soñaba. Esto no es un modo de decir, cuando veo algo raro siempre me pregunto con todas las letras si estoy soñando.