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Dr. Seuss Quotes |
Dr. Seuss Biography
- Full Name : Theodor Seuss Geisel
- Born : March 2, 1904 (Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S)
- Dead : September 24, 1991 (San Diego, California, U.S.)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Author, Poet, and Filmmaker
- Education : Dartmouth College; Lincoln College, Oxford
- Spouse : Helen Palmer
- Awards : Emmy Awards, Academy Awards, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award ...
- Notable Works : Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Horton Hears a Who!, The Cat in the Hat, ...etc
Facts About Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss is one of the world’s greatest children’s authors of all time.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote the most famous children's book of all time under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss
- Many of his books have been made into films.
- He selling over 600 million books and being translated into more than 18 languages.
- Dr. Seuss never had any biological children.
- First book of Dr. Seuss was rejected by 27 publishers.
Dr. Seuss Quotes
1. “ Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ”
— Dr. Seuss
2. “ Only you can control your future. ”
— Dr. Seuss
3. “ Why fit in when you were born to stand out? ”
— Dr. Seuss
4. “ Think and wonder, wonder and think. ”
— Dr. Seuss
5. “ You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book. ”
— Dr. Seuss
6. “ I’m sorry to say so but, sadly it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you. ”
— Dr. Seuss
7. “ In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. ”
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8. “ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ”
— Dr. Seuss
9. “ Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ”
— Dr. Seuss
10. “ I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too. ”
— Dr. Seuss
11. “ You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. ”
— Dr. Seuss
12. “ You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. ”
— Dr. Seuss
13. “ Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how. If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too. ”
— Dr. Seuss
14. “ Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. ”
— Dr. Seuss
15. “ I’m afraid sometimes you’ll play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you’ll play against you. ”
— Dr. Seuss
16. “ If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good. ”
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17. “ It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how. ”
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18. “ Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ”
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19. “ It’s a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not. ”
— Dr. Seuss
20. “ From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. ”
— Dr. Seuss
21. “ They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! ”
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22. “ Reading can take you places you have never been before. ”
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23. “ You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. ”
— Dr. Seuss
24. “ You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant? ”
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25. “ Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you. ”
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26. “ All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot. ”
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27. “ I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. ”
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28. “ You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who will decide where to go. ”
— Dr. Seuss
29. “ Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind! ”
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30. “ You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may! ”
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31. “ Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. ”
— Dr. Seuss
32. “ You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. ”
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33. “ Virtually every page is a cliffhanger – you’ve got to force them to turn it. ”
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34. “ How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon? ”
— Dr. Seuss
35. “ Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered. ”
— Dr. Seuss
36. “ So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! ”
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37. “ A book is just like life and anything can change. ”
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38. “ There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go. ”
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39. “ You’ll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants! ”
— Dr. Seuss
40. “ Take every chance, drop every fear. ”
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41. “ The people that mind don’t matter, and the people that matter don’t mind. ”
— Dr. Seuss
42. “ To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ”
— Dr. Seuss
43. “ Think! You can think any Think that you wish! ”
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44. “ It is better to know how to learn than to know. ”
— Dr. Seuss
45. “ Nothing is going to change unless someone does something soon ”
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46. “ Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it. ”
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47. “ Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday. ”
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48. “ People who mind don’t matter. But people who matter don’t mind. ”
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49. “ I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny. ”
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50. “ Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. ”
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51. “ I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love. ”
— Dr. Seuss
52. “ Oh you liked the movie? The book is better. ”
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53. “ Simple it’s not, I am afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. ”
— Dr. Seuss
54. “ Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined. ”
— Dr. Seuss
55. “ Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. ”
— Dr. Seuss
56. “ Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try! ”
— Dr. Seuss
57. “ When he worked, he really worked. ”
— Dr. Seuss
58. “ Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. ”
— Dr. Seuss
59. “ 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. ”
— Dr. Seuss
60. “ Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. ”
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61. “ You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ”
— Dr. Seuss
62. “ It is opener, out there, in the wide, open air. ”
— Dr. Seuss
63. “ Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child. ”
— Dr. Seuss
64. “ If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff. ”
— Dr. Seuss
65. “ So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. ”
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66. “ You’ll never be bored when you try something new. ”
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67. “ You never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. ”
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68. “ Don’t give up now, I believe in you all! A person’s a person, no matter how small. ”
— Dr. Seuss
69. “ Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales. ”
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70. “ We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency ”
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71. “ When you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. ”
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72. “ You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. 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! ”
— Dr. Seuss
73. “ You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ”
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74. “ Shorth is better than length. ”
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75. “ No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books. ”
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76. “ With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street. ”
— Dr. Seuss
77. “ Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. ”
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78. “ In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies! ”
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79. “ Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad. ”
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80. “ We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ”
— Dr. Seuss