Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geiselwas an American writer and illustrator best known for authoring popular children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes several of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 March 1904
CitySpringfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.
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.
Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.
Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!
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.
A life is a life no matter how small
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.
On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.
I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be “We can . . . and we’ve got to . . . do better than this.