Scarecrow Quotes

“For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

“The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration, and beat down everyone else to get it. Life is a competition of prattling peacocks enraptured in inane mating rituals. But for all our effacing and self-importance, we are all slaves to what we fear most. You have so very much to learn. Here. Let me teach you.”
― Christopher Nolan

“Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“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 a heart if he had one.'
'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman,'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“If you only had brain in your head you would be as good as man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can scare you or inspire you!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“No competence ever is required to be a scarecrow!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I can't watch The Wizard of Oz / without wondering how many times / the Scarecrow had his heart broken / no brain to tell him no / all that courage telling him yes / I wonder if he was desperate from all that hurt / if he'd spend some nights asking the Tin Man if he was a fool / Tin Man saying yes / saying obviously / saying of course / because how could he know / how could he see / with that hole in his chest / where a heart should be.

I can't watch The Wizard of Oz / without walking memory lane like a yellow brick road/ at the end of which / is someone who still loves me.”
― Kristina Mahr, Heretic Hearts

“A grimy ghost hovered above a smiling scarecrow that looked puny next to an oversized bat being watched by a wicked witch who was entangled in the web of an even larger spider that was in danger of being eaten by a bug-eyed owl that peeped out of the faux foliage, much more nostalgic than scary.”
― Kevin Purdy

“They were great philosophies, simple philosophies. That everybody had a heart, everyone had a brain, everyone had courage, these were the gifts that were given to you; and if you use them properly, you reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold is home. And home is not a house or a boat, it's the people who love you. And the people you love.”
― Ray Bolger

“I guess that was nice of Chiron, for the dogs' sake, but it kind of makes me wonder if he's got a Percy Jackson scarecrow stuffed into a closet somewhere for emergencies. I'm not sure I want to know.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“There he stood , peeping through his own head of rotten pumpkin , scaring away many a flock of birds . His body was as tough and concrete as a straw . Till now he only saw and could not think ,now he could not even see for the rotten pumpkin was taken away and eaten by the farmer who had fallen into a dark abyss due to falling prices of his crops.”
― Devam Doshi

“was in everyday attire with sand-colored jeans and a denim-blue buttoned-down shirt with his lean muscles defined underneath and exposed with his rolled-up sleeves. His tannish skin was peppered with freckles and he was bestowed with a natural rouge on his face; matched with his dry wavy dirty blonde hair he looked like a scarecrow that had given up the farm in favor of greener racing pastures.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.”
― Stanilaus Lec

“Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.”
― Stanislaw Lec, UNKEPT THOUGHTS

“SCARECROW: Uncomfortable? See this pole? It's up to my belly button!”
― GLEN NESBITT, We're Off

“Snowbound Condemnation by Stewart Stafford

My vigil for a shabby scarecrow,
Cruciform in a snowdrift field,
Its saviour-suited arms clawing
At corvids, frozen heels to Heaven.

Its mouth a wailing O-shape,
Lamenting deafened ears of corn,
Resuscitation for a fool's errand,
In a hysterical chorus of biting gales.

Haunting a sycamore tree, complicit,
I witnessed desolation's spectacle,
Half-expecting a condemned miracle,
This pilgrim genuflected into green slush.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford