Children want the same things we want.To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.

But I’ve bought a big bat.I’m all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more….

And will you succeed?Yes! You will, indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Brayor 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!

They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?

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!

Being crazy isn’t enough.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do...

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

And poor Mr. Bix!Every morning at six,poor Mr. Bix has his Borfin to fix!It doesn’t seem fair. It just doesn’t seem right,but his Borfin just seems to go shlump every night.It shlumps in a heap, sadly needing repair.Bix figures it’s due to the local night air.It takes him all day to un-shlump it.And then…the night...

Only you can control your future.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

How did it get so late so soon?

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

The people that mind don’t matter, and the people that matter don’t mind.

And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head.So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads.That’s why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader’s relief is.And that’s why your bookshave such power and...

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

You’re off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So… get on your way!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…

You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead.Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best.Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.Except when you don’t.Because, sometimes, you won’t.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.

A Wasn’t just isn’t. He just isn’t present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn’t that pleasant!

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 ballwill make you the winning-est winner of all.Fame! You’ll be as famous as famous can be,with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.Except...

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

Congratulations!Today is your day.You’re off to Great Places!You’re off and away!

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.

Look at me!Look at me!Look at me NOW!It is fun to have funBut you have to know how.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

When you’re in a Slump,you’re not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.