Quotes About Wonder

And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, a chemical wonder in her eyes.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful

He had seen lakes and rivers, but Connla had never seen an ocean, and its very size was beyond his comprehension.  "Where does it end?" he asked Blathine.  "It does not end. The ocean is everything. All the land is merely an interruption in the sea."  Her words made no sense; such things could not be possible.

Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

in the mountains the cherry trees were in full bloom, and the farther he went, the lovelier the veils of mist became, until for him, whose rank so restricted travel that all this was new, the landscape became a source of wonder.

I who never knew what it was the broom tree meant now wonder to find the road to Sonohara led me so far from my way.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

There was a time when "man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent," this New World, "commensurate to his capacity for wonder." I would strive with all my strength to give that sense of wonder to those who will come after me.

As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.

I deal in magic and mayhem.

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?

Do you think I will be able to breathe fire or spit poison?" Temeraire asked. "I am not sure how I could tell; I tried, but I only blew air.

Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.

We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea. Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle of black boulders. No one saw we were there and everyone who had ever been there stood silently in air. Where else do we ever have to go, and why?

olhinhos de madeira, por que me fitam?

The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

The art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

Éste es un mundo de sombras, Daniel, y la magia es un bien escaso.