L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum, better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works, and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers, wireless telephones, women in high risk, action-heavy occupations, and the ubiquity of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 May 1856
CountryUnited States of America
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
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 realities. So I believe that day dreams with your eyes wide open are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.
One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.
Everything has to come to an end, sometime.
And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.