Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind
You can't dribble on bow ties.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
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!
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!
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.
Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
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.
Adults are obsolete children.
Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?
So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!
In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
Be awesome! Be a book nut!
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.
I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.
I know I am in love because I am finding it difficult to fall asleep nowadays. This is because after having you around me now I find that reality is better than dreams.
I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.
The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.
Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.
My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.
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