Words matter. These are the best Dr. Seuss Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Only you can control your future.
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
Fun is good.
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
‘The Lorax’ book was intended to be propaganda.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Every once in a while, I get mad. ‘The Lorax’ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‘The Lorax,’ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
You make ’em, I amuse ’em.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’
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.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
