Quotes by L. Frank Baum

“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”

“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again”

“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”

“I have a feeling were not in Kansas anymore.”

“I cant give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”

“Roads, observed the shaggy man, dont go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them.”

“While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its way down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.”

“Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz”

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

To know Thyself is considered quite an accomplishment.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

How very wet this water is.

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, she said.The queerness doesnt matter, so long as theyre friends, was the answer

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustnt be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.