L. Frank Baum Quotes

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• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
• 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…
• The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
• No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.
• Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
• You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of…
• I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
• In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,
• Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,
• Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you…
• The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
• 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…
• A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and…
• I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to…
• The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
• I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.
• I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp.
• The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

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