Quotes About Wonder

Oz, the Great and Terrible.

Where is the Emerald City? he inquired. And who is Oz? Why, don't you know? she returned, in surprise. No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all, he answered sadly.

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.

fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet

he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world.

Was Ozma once a boy? asked Zeb, wonderingly. Yes; a wicked witch enchanted her, so she could not rule her kingdom. But she's a girl now, and the sweetest, loveliest girl in all the world.

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

todavía miraba a su sobrina con expresión de extrañeza, preguntándose qué era lo que la hacía reír.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

Lions and tigers and Funkyoid, oh my!

and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

I wonder where our legs have been while we've been gone? mused Cap'n Bill

The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing

One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

It is a miracle to walk on water and to fly through the sky, but the real miracle is to walk on earth. --Immortal Beggar

You are always new to me.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.