“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting!”
Variant: Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting!”
Variant: Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
As quoted in "Author Isn't Just a Cat in the Hat" by Miles Corwin in The Los Angeles Times (27 November 1983); also in Dr. Seuss: American Icon (2004) by Philip Nel, p. 38
Context: Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.
“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!
“Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!”
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”
Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Source: Sneetches are Sneetches: Learn About Same and Different
“Well, in Who-ville they say
That the Grinch's small heart
Grew 3 sizes that day.”
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)
Source: How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories