Quotes About Wonder

I heard about desert, but I never seen them with my eyes. I just couldn't believe there was nothing, except sand and except the stars in the sky.

I'm just trying to follow the footsteps of God. I don't question him. Just keep moving. He never fails. He always amazes me. It's like, damn, the sky isn't the limit.

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, 'Let's go pick some flowers' or 'There's a snail. Let's investigate that.'

Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

The mysteries of germination and flowering and fruiting engaged me from an early age, and the fact that by planting and working an ordinary patch of dirt you could in a few months' time harvest things of taste and value was, for me, nature's most enduring astonishment.

Many reports are given of deep mystical experiences," he wrote, "but their chief characteristic is the wonder at one's own profundity.

An experience of awe appears to be an excellent antidote for egotism.

once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.

Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence.

Saxansaxo', for example, meant the smell and the coolness carried on the wind from a place where it's raining to a place where it isn't. how could one word mean something so marvellous?

She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure.

How could anyone not want to live, thought Will, when there were so many things to live for? there were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.

Do you think, said Will, gazing over the wall at the oak tree, do you think you can die of happiness?

One day , would it be possible to walk through walls ? To build starships than can travel faster than the speed of life? TO READ OTHER PEOPLE'S MIND ? To become INVISIBLE ? To move object with the power of our minds? To transport our bodies instantly through outer space?? Since I was a child , I've always been fascinated by these questions.

to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. —JOHN WHEELER