Yertle The Turtle Quotes

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

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

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.

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!

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.

It took Lucy forty hours to die and we hardly left her side. . . .We spent those last hours kissing her frequently and telling her how deeply we loved her. Then I began to read Leah’s children’s books out loud to her. She had lived a storyless childhood, so I read in the last day of her life the books she had missed. I told her about Winnie the Pooh and Yertle the Turtle, took her Where the Wild Things Are, introduced her to Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland. Each of us took turns reading to her out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and, at the very last, Leah insisted that I tell all the Great Dog Chippie stories I had told her during our year of exile from the family in Rome.

I’ve pains in my back and my shoulders and knees. How long must we stand here, Your Majesty, please?

I’m ruler,” said Yertle, “of all that I see. But I don’t see enough. That’s the trouble with me.

For a complete explanation of the dangers of managers with the wrong kind of ambition, I strongly recommend Dr. Seuss’s management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle.

Dr. Seuss’s management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle. SCREENING