Miracle Quotes - page 2

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. (Charles Lindbergh)
The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him. View quote
Pablo Casals
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive-that you can touch the miracle of being alive-then that is a kind of enlightenment. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. View quote
Heinrich Heine
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. View quote
Denis Diderot
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. View quote
Martha Graham
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle. View quote
Martha Graham
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! (Kurt Vonnegut)
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. View quote
Louise L. Hay
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. View quote
Edward Young
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. View quote
Pablo Picasso
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. View quote
Walt Whitman
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. View quote
Haim Ginott
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. View quote
Walter Chrysler
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. (Amy Bloom)
Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. View quote
Elizabeth David
I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is- Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates' glad symphony, Cool touch of western wind, Sunshine's divine caress. How should they know or feel They are in darkness? But, oh, the miracle! If a Redeemer came, Laid finger on their eyes- One touch and what a world, New-born in loveliness! View quote
Israel Zangwill
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect.... The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms. View quote
William Thomson