“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Variant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Source: Happy Birthday to You!
“You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Context: 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!
Variant: "Maybe Christmas...", he thought, "... Doesn't come from a store."
"Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"
Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)
“I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.”
Source: Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96
“If you never did
You should.
These things are fun.
and Fun is good.”
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
Source: Horton Hears a Who!
“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”
Source: The Lorax (1971)
Context: I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!
But I'm also in charge of the brown Bar-ba-loots,
Who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suits,
And happily lived, eating Truffula fruits.
Now, thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground,
There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round!
And my poor Bar-ba-loots are all getting the crummies
Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies!
“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
Variant: It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.
Source: The Cat in the Hat (Deluxe Edition)
Yertle the Turtle (1958)
Source: Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz