Dr. Seuss: Place

Dr. Seuss was American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books. Explore interesting quotes on place.
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“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”

Dr. Seuss
Way

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

Dr. Seuss

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)

Reading , Learning

“In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”

Dr. Seuss book On Beyond Zebra!

On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
Context: In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

“Oh, the places you'll go!”

Dr. Seuss

“You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Way , Mountain , Waiting

“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

Game

“Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Graduation

“You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!”

Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

The last sentence of this statement is often misquoted as "You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, / For the people and places you're lucky you're not!"
Source: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
Context: It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!

People

“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So… get on your way!”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Way , Mountain , Waiting

“You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…”

Dr. Seuss

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Fear , Waiting

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

Dr. Seuss

Variant: The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)

Learning , Reading

“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.”

Dr. Seuss The Lorax

Whatever that meant . . . well, I just couldn't guess.
The Lorax (1971)

Sadness , Forgetting

“In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”

Dr. Seuss book On Beyond Zebra!

On Beyond Zebra! (1955)

“It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!”

Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

The last sentence of this statement is often misquoted as "You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, / For the people and places you're lucky you're not!"
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)

People , World