Dr. Seuss Children Quotations

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

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

Adults are only obsolete children.

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

Adults are obsolete children.

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Adults are just outdated children.

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.

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.

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