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Quotes About Wonder

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
~ Alice Riley
Honey, have you seen your sister?" She's on Jupiter, Mom.
~ Diane Duane
I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.
~ Jewel
You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!
~ Pope Francis
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
~ Jay Maisel
Is this a great country, or what?
~ Michael Keaton
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
~ Seth Godin
Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.
~ Cynthia Lewis
I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.
~ Mordicai Gerstein
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!
~ Gertrude Bell
As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.
~ Hal Borland
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
~ Anne Lamott
The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
~ Tom Hanks
Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?
~ Kobayashi Issa
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?
~ Salvador Dali
Every single day I wake up in the morning, and I wonder if this is some kind of amazing dream that's gonna end all of a sudden. And, you know, I'm gonna wake up and be somewhere else.
~ Cory Monteith
Ideas come from curiosity.
~ Walt Disney
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.
~ Earl Nightingale
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
~ Salvador Dali
Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?
~ Mary Oliver