The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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Albert Einstein
[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
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Richard Dawkins
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.
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Edmund Burke
I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!
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P.L. Travers
Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
More Quotes By P.L. Travers
We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!
But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.
I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!
This is the way the wheel turns, coming at last to full circle, with wild as well as tame at he crib; lion and turtle-dove together an barnyard beasts lying down with the fox. For wild and tame are but two hlaves and here, where...
That's coral! " she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea! " Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea! " I did, " said Jane, looking very surprised....
