Quotes About Wonder

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.

Anything that I'm passionate about and surprises me usually ends up turning into a joke simply because I have questions about it and I'm curious and I want to talk about it.