Quotes About Wonder

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

"What are the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible."

"If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change."

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

Summertime, it was a song, it was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows…but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you're enjoying your life, and the next you're wondering how you ever lived without them.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.