Amazement Quotes

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. (Jack Kerouac)
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. View quote
David Attenborough
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the "why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. View quote
Albert Camus
Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China. View quote
David Lange
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. View quote
Thomas Mann
I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him. View quote
Terry Pratchett
You like the Earth, Man, and you - pawing the ground - think of God, the little nursling will recognize you, and will think of you with love, because God lives even in it also. Give nourishment to the developing little creatures, either to plant or to animal, and it will develop for your sweet amazement. Give food for the wild animal starving, and it will slick to you. View quote
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time. View quote
Edwin Boring
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death. View quote
Robinson Jeffers
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. (Leonardo da Vinci)
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. View quote
Fred Allen
Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony? View quote
Rick Riordan
Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said. "Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm. "Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug. The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree. View quote
Rick Riordan
Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm. View quote
Rick Riordan
I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart. View quote
Doug Ose
Amazement awaits us at every corner. View quote
James Broughton
When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job. View quote
Wolf Blitzer
With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle to flicker. Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand in suspense any longer, inquired anxiously "Can you see anything?", it was all I could do to get out the words "Yes, wonderful things". View quote
Howard Carter
I continue to explore the science in which I work almost like a child, with naïve joy, curiosity, and amazement. View quote
Eric Kandel
"Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory." [...] They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song. (Chinua Achebe)
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. View quote
Maya Angelou
That tho' a Man were admitted into Heaven to view the wonderful Fabrick of the World, and the Beauty of the stars, yet what would otherwise be Rapture and Extasie, would be but melancholy Amazement if he had not a Friend to communicate it to. View quote
Archytas
Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less... View quote
Anthony Burgess
Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement. [...] They have never ceased to be my guiding lights. View quote
Luis Barragán