Цитаты из книг автора «Лаймен Фрэнк Баум»

Three were men and one a woman, and all were oddly dressed.

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

Folk lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Being in the track of the ocean steamers it was not long before he found himself overtaking a magnificent vessel whose decks were crowded with passengers. He dropped down some distance, to enable him to see these people more plainly, and while he hovered near he could hear the excited exclamations of the passengers, who focused dozens of marine glasses upon his floating form. This inspection somewhat embarrassed him, and having no mind to be stared at he put on additional speed and soon left the steamer far behind him. About noon the sky clouded over, and Rob feared a rainstorm was approaching. So he rose to a point considerably beyond the clouds, where the air was thin but remarkably pleasant to inhale and the rays of the sun were not so hot as when reflected by the surface of the water.

The only way to do a thing Is he who cares to work.

“Do YOU know what’s going to become of me?” he asked. “Not – not ’zactly,” she admitted.“Do you know what’s going to become of YOU?” he continued, earnestly.“I can’t say I do,” replied Dorothy, remembering her present difficulties.The shaggy man laughed. “No one knows everything, Dorothy,” he said.

Великодушие, мудрость и доброта – это природные силы, которые формируют характер.

Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle