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Wonder Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the…
- This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
- Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me…
- What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
- Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is…
- His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has…
More Wonder Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No… — Amitabh Bachchan
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot