"Why, if I had a brain I could... [singing] I could while away the hours, Conferrin' with the flowers, Consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' While my thoughts were busy hatchin' If I only had a brain."

"Almira Gulch! Just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For 23 years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you, and now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!"

"The Greatest Picture In The History Of Entertainment!"

"Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!"

"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Technicolor Triumph!"

"Biggest Screen Sensation Since "Snow White"!"

"The Mighty Miracle Show That Is The Talk Of America!"

"Amazing Sights To See ! The Tornado . . . Munchkinland . . . Horse Of A Different Color . . . Startling Balloon Ascent . . . Flying Monkeys . . . Trees That Talk And Throw Apples."

"Mighty Miracle Show Of 1000 Delights!"

"It's a wonderful universal story. I mean you look at the Wizard of Oz — it takes a reality which is the beginning of the movie, and turns it into a mythology. … You know all great story telling is a form of myth."

"I would watch Wizard of Oz, like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me."

"Judy Garland – Dorothy Gale"

"Frank Morgan – Professor Marvel/Emerald City Doorman/Coachman/The Wizard's Guard/The Wizard"

"Ray Bolger – Hunk/The Scarecrow"

"Bert Lahr – Zeke/The Cowardly Lion"

"Jack Haley – Hickory/The Tin Man"

"Billie Burke – Glinda"

"Margaret Hamilton – Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West"

"Charley Grapewin – Uncle Henry"

"– Nikko, the Wicked Witch's Head Winged Monkey"

"Clara Blandick – Aunt Em"

"Terry (credited as Toto) – Toto the Dog"

"[last lines] Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home – home! And this is my room – and you're all here – and I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And... oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home!"

"There's no place like home; there's no place like home; there's no place like home..."

"Well, I... I think that it... that it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em... and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!"

"Someplace where there isn't any trouble... [tossing a piece of her cruller to Toto] ...do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or train. It's far, far away... behind the moon... beyond the rain. [singing] Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high, There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."

"You're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz If ever a Wiz there was. If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was The Wizard of Oz is one because Because, because, because, because, because... Because of the wonderful things he does."

"Ding Dong, the witch is dead, Which old witch? The wicked witch. Ding Dong, the wicked witch is dead!"

"You always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."