Quotes About Adventure

Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!

No one knows that, except the person who's writing this story, said Shaggy. But we won't find anything—not even supper—unless we travel on. Here's a path. Let's take it and see where it leads to.

But nobody can stay alive without getting into danger sometimes, and danger doesn't mean getting hurt, Cap'n; it only means we might get hurt. So I guess we'll have to take the risk.

she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying: Take me home to Aunt Em! Instantly

Why, I'm not afraid to go anywhere, if the Cowardly Lion is with me, she said. I know him pretty well, and so I can trust him. He's always afraid, when we get into trouble, and that's why he's cowardly; but he's a terrible fighter, and that's why he isn't a coward. He doesn't like to fight, you know, but when he HAS to, there isn't any beast living that can conquer him.

This is all true," said Dorothy, "and I am glad I was of use to these good friends. But now that each of them has had what he most desired, and each is happy in having a kingdom to rule besides, I think I should like to go back to Kansas.

I've learned from long experience that every road leads somewhere, or there wouldn't be any road; so it's likely that if we travel long enough, my dear, we will come to some place or another in the end. What place it will be we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure to find out when we get there.

Scarecrow declared he could see as well as by day. So she took hold of his

Having this thought in mind, the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum

You must walk. It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.

and the Lion, he said to the Woodman, and the bees cannot sting them. This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion

woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good. There were few

All the magic isn't in fairyland, he said gravely. There's lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the United States, where you and I once lived, as you can here.

Oz, the Great and Terrible.

How shall we cross the river?

you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow. Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle

24. Home Again Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her. My darling child! she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. Where in the world did you come from? From the Land of Oz, said Dorothy gravely. And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!

The Wicked Witch then made the axe slip and cut off my head, and at first I thought that was the end of me. But the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.

There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled. Toward evening they came to a great forest, where the trees grew so big and close together that their branches met over the road of yellow brick. It was almost dark under the trees, for the branches shut out the daylight; but the travelers did not stop, and went on into the forest.

Do you think Oz could give me courage? asked the Cowardly Lion.

Roads, observed the shaggy man, don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them.

The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning

4. The Road Through the Forest

Pray what can a civilized boy do now When all the Dragons are dead?