Wonder Quotes

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

A good first impression can work wonders

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself can find a little action.

I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station

Wonder opens and unravels reality.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

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?

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

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

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it.

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

Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

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

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.