Dr. Seuss Quotes

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.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

"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. "

Because unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.

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.

"Mister!" he said with a sawdusty sneeze. "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I'm asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs" – He was very upset as he shouted and puffed – "What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?"

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

You'll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants!

In the places I go there are things that I see That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

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.

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!

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

a book is just like life and anything can change

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