“Sometimes you will never know the value of something until it becomes a memory.”
“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book." ---Dr. Seuss”
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
“The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.”
“And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
“They say I'm old-fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
“I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”
“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.”
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.”
“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”
“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”
“There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
“If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.”
“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you”
“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”
“Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!” ― Dr. Seuss
“The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”
“It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.”
“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”
“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
“Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”
“And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.”
“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around. ”
“You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”
“Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.”
“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”
“Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.”
“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”
“Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!”
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”
“You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!”
“Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?'
“This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!”
“You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
“Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.”
“Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.”
“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..”
“But now," says the Once-ler, "now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.”
“When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”
“He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.”
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”
“In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
“How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!”
“I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.”
“I box in yellow Gox box socks.”
“Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”
“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.”
“Fiction Is My Addiction”
“And what would you do if you met a jibboo?”
“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
“But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!”
“You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...”
“Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind”
“Not here not there not anywhere!”
“I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them. ”
“All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.”
“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”
“This book is to be read in bed.”
“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
“Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.”
“Teeth are always in style.”
“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”
“Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.”
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
“life is a suscess”
“I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am”
“When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”
“Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.”
“I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.”
“No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”
“And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles of course... all the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
“Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
“I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.”
“Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!”
“I speak for the trees!”
“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
“Shorth is better than length.”
“Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.”
“I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.”
“And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!”
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
“The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!”
“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it alive and vital. Virtually every page is a cliff-hanger—you've got to force them to turn it.”
“The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.”
“Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
“Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.”
“A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!”
“Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”
“Oh, the places you'll go!”
“Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
“And I learned that are troubles Of more than one kind Some come from ahead And some come from behind.”
“And I saw on this hill, since my eyesight's so keen, the two biggest fools that have ever been seen! And the fools that I saw were none other than you, who seem to have nothing else better to do than sit here and argue who's better than who!”
“a book is just like life and anything can change”
“I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am. That's a great thing to be.”
“remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.”
“There is no one alive who is Youer than You!”
“Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?”
“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.”
“Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!”
“Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .”
“And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”
“Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.”
“Fun is good”
“When at last we are sure You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms Must be properly filled So that you and your heirs May be properly billed.”
“You make 'em, I amuse 'em.”
“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.”
“I think I can communicate with kids because I don’t try to communicate with kids. Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.”
“Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!”
“You never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
“The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”
“The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.”
“I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.”
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you. Shout aloud, I am glad to be what I am. Thank goodness I'm not a ham, or a clam, or a dusty old jar of gooseberry jam. I am what I am, what a great thing to be. If I say so myself, happy everyday to me!”
“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
“And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!”
“So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant stretched his great trunk through the air, and he lifted the dust speck and carried it over and placed it down, safe, on a very soft clover”
“Gertrude, behind her, again had just one... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.”
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
“But neither Bartholomew Cubbins, nor King Derwin himself, nor anyone else in the Kingdom of Didd could ever explain how the strange thing happened. They could only say it just "happened to happen" and was not very likely to happen again.”
“But McBean was quite wrong, I'm quite happy to say, the Sneetches got quite a bit smarter that day. That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches, and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches”
“That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches, and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches." The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss”
“ART. What’s it all about? This is what ART is about…ART is when an artist looks at something…like a horse, for instance…and they see something in that horse that excites them…SO they do something about it. They tell you about it…in any one of a number of ways.”
“And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see Why trubles like this have to happen to me!”
“Bạn càng đọc nhiều, bạn càng biết nhiều. Bạn càng học nhiều, bạn càng đi nhiều”
“This," cried the Mayor, "is your town's darkest hour! The time for all Whos who have blood that is red To come to the aid of their country!" he said. "We've GOT to make noises in greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
“The only one youer than you is you.”
“There is no one alive who is youier than you”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss”
“We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency”
“Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.”
“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”
“How a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat”
“Now my troubles are going To have truobles with me!”
“Green eggs and ham...”
“With banner flip-flapping, one more you'll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you're that kind of a guy!”
“Now, I never had ever had Troubles before, So I said to myself, "I don't want anymore.”
“You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.”
“There's the yottle in the bottle, whom I do not wish to keep, but the zillow on my pillow always helps me fall asleep.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
“You should try these things, for these things are fun, and fun is good.”
“What terrible splashing!’ the elephant frowned. ‘I can’t let my very small persons get drowned. I’ve GOT to protect them. I’m bigger than they.”
“You'll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants!”
“I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.”
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
“... And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore”
“I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.”
“Budi ono što jesi i kaži ono što osjećaš, jer oni koji imaju nešto protiv toga nisu važni, a oni koji su važni, nemaju ništa protiv toga.”
“Don't give up now, I believe in you all! A person's a person, no matter how small”
“Por que se adaptar quando você nasceu para se destacar?”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
“You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.”
“Should I put this speck down…?’ Horton thought with alarm. ‘If I do, these small persons may come to great harm. I CAN’T put it down. And I WON’T! After all, A person’s a person. No matter how small.”
“Please don’t harm all my little folks, who Have as much right to live as us bigger folks do!”
“Do you see what I mean?… They’ve proved they ARE persons, no matter how small, And their whole world was saved by the Smallest of All!”
“A person’s a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will NOT have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
“I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss”
“The more that you read the more you will know the more you know the more places you'll go”
“Huevos verdes con jamón”
“Life is like a game. Playing it as if ur life belongs to it but in the end, remember it is just a game”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself Any direction you choose.”
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles”
“Some poor little person who’s shaking with fear That he’ll blow in the pool! He’s no way to steer! I’ll just have to save him. Because, after all, A person’s a person, no matter how small.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Of course,’ Horton answered. ‘Of course I will stick. I’ll stick by you small folks through thin and through thick!” ― Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Smoke crack and die” ― Dr. Seuss
“So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!” ― Dr. Seuss
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” ― Dr. Seuss
“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. —Dr. Seuss” ― Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type” ― Dr. Seuss
“Never mix the peepee and the poopoo, for if you do, a peepee poopoo potion will persist a pong until the next blue moon.” ― Dr. Suess
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.” ― Dr. Seuss
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises' catalog represents and supports all communities and families” ― Dr. Seuss Enterprises
“Oh you liked the movie? The book is better” ― Dr Seuss
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
“You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”
“It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)”
“Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friend
“I love my job. I love the pay! ~I love it more and more each day. ~I love my boss, he is the best! ~I love his boss and all the rest. ~I love my office and its location. I hate to have to go on vacation. ~I love my furniture, drab and grey, and piles of paper that grow each day! ~I think my job is swell, there's nothing else I love so well. ~I love to work among my peers, I love their leers, and jeers, and sneers. ~I love my computer and its software; I hug it often though it won't care. ~I love each program and every file, I'd love them more if they worked a while. ~I'm happy to be here. I am. I am. ~I'm the happiest slave of the Firm, I am. ~I love this work. I love these chores. ~I love the meetings with deadly bores. ~I love my job - I'll say it again - I even love those friendly men. ~Those friendly men who've come today, in clean white coats to take me away!!!!!”
“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much
“Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
“My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.”
“You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?”
“Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch. So then somebody said "Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!". Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher. He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher! And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on watch watcher watchering watch, watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee. You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!”
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
“Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~”
Explore a collection of Dr. Seuss quotes that celebrate the spirit of childhood and the boundless possibilities of dreams. These quotes resonate with readers of all ages, reminding us to embrace our uniqueness and embrace the joy of learning and discovery.
