Quotes About Wonder

Di media vuelta y me largué hacia la noche. Y en mi vida entró la magia. Y ahí sigue.

and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand - If it is to be done, it must be by studying Humboldt.

to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of wonders.

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things. http://diggingupthefuture.wordpress.com/

How do you know that? Have you been there to see? And if you had been there to see, and had seen none, that would not prove that there were none ... And no one has a right to say that no water babies exist till they have seen no water babies existing, which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water babies.

Pues si los cambios que experimentan los animales inferiores son tan maravillosos y difíciles de descubrir, ¿por qué no habría de haber cambios igual de maravillosos o más, e igualmente difíciles de descubrir, en los seres superiores? ¿No

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead--from human souls we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Where do you want to go? was his responce. I don't know Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

The silence of God's voice will make you wonder if He is even there. And the absence of God's presence will make you wonder if He even cares. He is. And He does.

As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him

Dear God," whispers Pete, "it's full of posters!

It's weird to be a human. We get to think about things, we get to wonder. It seems like quite a privileged position in the universe. And I wouldn't give it up for certainty because when you're certain you stop being curious. And here's the one thing I know about the thing you're certain about; you're wrong.

Romans 11:33–36:

If they veered left, it would feel to them as if they were sinking into the earth: the path would narrow as the ground around them rose up to their hips, then shoulders, then heads. The walls would turn from sod to stone, and it would seem as if they were walking inside a crag in a cliff. The sky would be reduced to a thin swath of blue, broken in parts by the branches of the trees that grew above them along the sides of this ancient channel.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle.

Babies are born every day but truly, each one is a little miracle.

My son is no less than a miracle for me.

Gotze is a miracle boy, a boy wonder. He can play any position up front.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

I believe that miracles happen every day.