Dr. Seuss Quotes

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

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.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Being crazy isn't enough.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

How did it get so late so soon?

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!

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.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

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!

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Only you can control your future.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

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.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

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.

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.

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?

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.

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.

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

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.

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

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.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!

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.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

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

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 more unlucky than you!

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.

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.)

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

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.

Oh, the thinks you can think!

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

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.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

You have to be odd to be number one

It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.

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.

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..

No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.” 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank. 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13. 6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14. 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15. 8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil. 9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19. 10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936. 12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24 14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream." 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat". 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US 44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats 45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President

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 friends may come back.

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. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

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?

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."~