Quotes About Wonder

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.

Pictures must be miraculous.

I, on the other hand, hoped Ava would never grow up. In my eyes, the fact that she didn't yet know what words meant, and had no concept of herself as something distinct from anything else, made her the greatest show on earth.

I look at the trees and the birds and I know it's not true. I'm not yet sure how to do it, but I'm going to learn.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

Look up there! That's the sky!

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?'I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.''That, ' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.

Wanna see the rest of my happy place?

It's a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get, " he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.

We really need to find a cure for stupidity, and fast! I've heard it's contagious...No wonder why there's so many of them.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.