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Quotes About Wonderment

His jabber had a glottal, chanted quality, seemingly designed to guide you past the territory where you might wish to tell him to shut up already or even to strike him, into a realm of baffled wonderment as you considered the white noise of a nerd's id in full song.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Deeds which populate the dimensions of space and which reach their end when someone dies may cause us wonderment, but one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies in every final agony, unless there is a universal memory as the theosophists have conjectured. In time there was a day that extinguished the last eyes to see Christ; the battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with the death of a man. What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And said in wonderment My love I have finally come home...
~ A. Norman Jeffares
La fel cum bondarul zboar? deÈ™i nu are o form? aerodinamic?, tot aÈ™a un om care îÈ™i aminteÈ™te ce înseamn? s? fii copil È™tie s? acorde raÈ›iunii È™i emoÈ›iei locul cuvenit, p?strând în acelaÈ™i timp ochii deschiÈ™i în faÈ›a miracolului lumii. Amintirile È™i visurile în care întrez?rim o f?râm? de mirare ne îndeamn? s? c?ut?m mai departe.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.
~ Juhi Chawla
But it is you, the possessors of divine intelligence and the freedom of will, who are the great creators of all life. It is you who created the morning sun, the evening sky, and the loveliness of all things that are. It is you indeed who created the remarkable creature called man so that you, who were brilliant lights in the Void of space, could experience all the wonderment of your created forms.
~ Ramtha
What happens next? she whispered. Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca. There's more? he said in mock wonderment Rebecca dimpled. You know very well there is more. Tell me all about it, he encouraged. In Papa's book— Tell me all about it without mentioning your papa.
~ Julie Anne Long
The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
~ Rick Yancey
Never ever doubt in magic.
~ Scott Dixon
Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies.
~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Things are wonderful when we look at them with magic in our hearts.
~ Debasish Mridha
The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.
~ Charles Thomas Newton
I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.
~ Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
While the idea of worshipping numbers may now seem bizarre, it perhaps reflects the scale of wonderment at the discovery of the first fragments of abstract mathematical knowledge. The excitement of learning that there is order in nature, when previously you were not aware that there was any at all, must have felt like a religious awakening.
~ Alex Bellos
Why, that is most intriguing. A lady scientist," he said in a tone of wonderment. "What will they think of next?
~ Deanna Raybourn
She saw that Matavai Bay had become, in the hushed and balmy night, as smooth as a mirror. The entire canopy of stars above her was reflected perfectly in the water, as though there were two heavens now: one above, one below. The silence and purity of this was formidable. The beach felt heavy with presences. Had Ambrose ever seen such a thing while he was here? Two heavens, in one night? Had he ever felt this dread and wonderment, this sense of both loneliness and presence?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
~ Rupert Grint
Watch with glittering eyes the world around you. [...] Those who do not believe in magic will never find it.
~ Roald Dahl
Children are the only people who accept a mood of wonderment, who are ready to welcome a perfect miracle at any hour of the day or night. Only a child can entertain an angel unawares, or to meet Sir Launcelot in shining armor on a moonlit road.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Having this thought in mind, the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum
~ L. Frank Baum
You have all these wonders, but you barely notice them. Everything is a delight—don't you know that?" Sinclair
~ Jennifer Ashley
In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people's homes, I can be met with suspicion, I can be taken somewhere else altogether. There is always wonderment there for me, even if the person I am photographing may not see it or be aware of it.
~ Jim Goldberg
That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
~ Mick Fleetwood
I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.
~ Twinkle Khanna