Dr. Seuss Quotes

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

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

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

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

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Today you are You,
that is truer than true.
There is no one alive
who is Youer than You.

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Some have two feet and some have four. Some have six feet and some have more. Where do they come from? I can't say. But I bet they have come a long long way.

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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.

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And suppose that you lived in that forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous pants-eating plants!

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On the fifteenth of May, in the Jungle of Nool,
In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,
He was splashing... enjoying the jungle's great joys...
When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.

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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!

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

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My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.

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In Who-ville they say
That the Grinch's small heart
Grew three sizes that day!

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Now all that was left 'neath the bad-smelling sky
was my big empty factory...
the Lorax...
and I.
The Lorax said nothing.
Just gave me a glance,
just gave me a very sad, sad backward glance,
as he lifted himself by the seat of his pants.
And I'll never forget the grim look on his face
when he heisted himself and took leave of this place,
through a hole in the smog, without leaving a trace.
And all that the Lorax left here in this mess
was a small pile of rocks with the one word:
UNLESS.
Whatever that meant... well, I just couldn't guess.

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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!

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"My friends!", cried the elephant.
"Tell me! Do tell!
Are you safe? Are you sound?
Are you whole? Are you well?"

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So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact,
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.

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A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

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Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

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From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.

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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

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

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

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Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

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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!

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Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

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"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!"

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

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That Sam-I-Am!
That Sam-I-Am!
I do not like that Sam-I-Am!

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