The Wizard of Oz Family Quotes

The Wizard sums up the movie's feelings about family, and what represents a family, pretty darn nicely here. You're not in it for yourself. You're in it for the people who you care about. They care about you too, and if you take care of them, they're gonna have your back when the flying monkeys attack.

This is the real heartbreaker in the film: she's got to choose between two sets of families. It suggests that her trip home comes with a price, and just as she wins back what she lost, she has to give up something to get it. It stinks, but unfortunately, life has a way of working like that sometimes.

If you're not weeping like a newborn babe at this point, check your pulse because you might be dead. There's no better definition of family than crying when you leave them, which means the Scarecrow (and the others) have officially made the grade.