Awe Quotes
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The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.
Anagarika Govinda -
Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?
George Jackson
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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
Thomas Harris -
One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
Kate Elliott -
I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.
William Shatner -
Content is a glimpse.
Willem de Kooning
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Being in nature actually evokes awe in people. And it's a chemical reaction.
Caroline Adams Miller -
Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.
Raphael Saadiq -
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
William James -
I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
William Shakespeare -
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
Shinichi Suzuki -
Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!
Isoroku Yamamoto
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
Francis Chan -
I was in awe every time I walked on to the field
Ryne Sandberg -
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous than sculptures and pictures because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.
Kathryn Lindskoog -
Presence will minish awe.
Claudius Claudianus -
When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
Steve Martin