Scarecrow Quotes
27 quotes by 20 authors
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!
— Jonathan Brandis
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Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
— Dogen
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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till…
— William Shakespeare
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We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot…
— John Churton Collins
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In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping…
— Annie Besant
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
— Thomas Huxley
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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…
— L. Frank Baum
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A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially…
— Gregory Maguire
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I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.
— L. Frank Baum
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
— Margaret Atwood
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Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.…
— L. Frank Baum
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The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made…
— L. Frank Baum
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I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.
— Shannon Hale
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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
— Angela Carter
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All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with…
— L. Frank Baum
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Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of…
— Jerry Spinelli
Who Wrote These Scarecrow Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 27 Scarecrow Quotes as follows: