Dr. Seuss Children Quotations

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

Adults are only obsolete children.

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

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

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

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

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.

Adults are just outdated children.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

Adults are obsolete children.