Astonished Quotes

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. - Lauren Holly

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; / And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. - Bible

Winning in boxing is the greatest thing ever. There is nothing like getting your hand raised by the referee at the end of a fight. (I am) astonished, astonished that my name would be added to that list of great boxers. - Jeremy Biggs

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? / Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; / To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. - Bible

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. - Enid Bagnold

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. - Fran Lebowitz

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

When I first came to America, I was kind of astonished that this was an issue--and that was 30 years ago. - Matthew Chapman