Cartoonist Quotes

“Adults are only obsolete children.”

“Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.”

“Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.”

“You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!”

“Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.”

“I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.”

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”

“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”

“The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.”

“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

“I speak for the trees!”

“I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.”

“Not here not there not anywhere!”

“Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!”

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

“If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.”

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

“Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.”

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

“Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.”

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

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

“Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.”