Quotes about Wonder
Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life
- Kathie Lee Gifford
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
- John Keats
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
- John Keats
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
- Elizabeth George
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
- Ashley Montagu
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
- Audrey Hepburn
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
- George Bernard Shaw
The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
- George Eliot
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
- JRR Tolkien
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
- Dag Hammarskjold
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
- John Keats