Wonder Quotes

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.

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.

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.