to think Dr Suess is a guru?

[MammaTJ]

Such nuggets as

Today you are you, that is truer than true, there is noone alive who is youer than you.

You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Be who you are and say what you mean, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

and finally.. Today I shall behave as if this is the day I shall be remembered!!

Ha ha AllPast if it gets us through the day, it is worthy!!

I got the cat in the hat devious t shirt......and thing 1 & 2!!!!!!
Dd's fav t shirt I got her as a toddler (and we still have) is good old 1 fish 2 fish.......

I listed a load of his on the your favourite quotes thread

I ADORE the Lorax. I hope the film hasn't ruin what was such a simple, yet poignant story.

I've list my copy, I need a new one. I want to read it to the DSs.

My favourite quote is ""Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

I've stencilled it on a canvas and hung it on DS's wall.

I grew up with Dr Seuss (as a child my favourites were Fox in Socks and Are You My Mother (wrote under Eastman name). We now read lots of Dr Seuss tithe children, and had an awesome time in Seuss Landings at Islands of Adventure a few years ago. Thing 2 (yes, that's how they're referred to around here) chose The Cat in the Hat Came Back for his show and tell, and could recite it all (he's just turned 5).

He was an amazing man.

Dr Seuss is brilliant - Seuss Landing in Universal Studio is fantastic!

Amazing indeed!!

"those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

I love that and I'm a huge fan of Dr Seuss, but...he didn't say it. Bernard Baruch did.

I really like the 'taxidermy' he did where he made some of the weird animals he drew, with horns and bits from the zoo where his father worked. Linky

I am also loving the Doc. Have all the quotes on OP printed and on my DS's bedroom wall. I hate the Cat in the Hat and Horton Hears a Who films as they just seem so aggressive, crude and nasty and not of the Seuss ethos at all so I do not have high hopes for The Lorax.

"A person's a person, no matter how small"

I love Dr Suess - not only is he one of my favourite introverts (who worried about meeting the children he wrote for in case he disappointed them by not being jolly and extrovert), but also because of all the quotes here.

My dad is severely dyslexic, but the one book he remembers being able to read when he was a child is Green Eggs and Ham. He bought it for DD as the only book he knew of that he could pass on to her that he loved. I'm still really touched by that, and it is one of her favourite books.

YANBU He is and, will always be, brilliant. I was always a bit surprised he was an American.

Don't like the movies made of his books that much though.

What a fab thread.
DS and I loved 'If I ran the Zoo' :)

Completely off topic but trolololo your name drives me mad. Every time I see it I start singing that bloody song and it gets stuck in my head all day! Just when dp stopped playing it too!

I do hope you know what song I mean, as I tell myself you just know! but then it must be personal torture if you do know...

Back to suess, surprised nobody has mentioned the sam one? That's one of my favourites!

Love Dr Seuss. I have a vague memory of reading some article/listening to some radio programme about him and he was quite eccentric IRL as well as in his books. As a child I loved his mad city-scapes but his philosophy is just amazing.

Does anyone else think of Sam-I-am every time they see Will-I-Am from the Black Eyed Peas? Cannot take that guy seriously!

confusedpixie. Funnily enough I have name changed this morning, no reason but the trolololo name had run its course. Trust you like this name.
signs off humming 'The Duck Song'

Haha, hadn't heard of The Duck Song, I'll send it to DP as revenge for months of Trololololo, thanks!
The Trololo guy died not long ago :(

Yeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeye, OoOoOoOoOo I'm glad that there are people in the world apart from DP and his mates who know these things, would never have made the connection to your new NN though!

He was American but went to Oxford so hope we got our influence in then. Love the dr.

Sorry for hi-jack but this is what confused and I are on about just in case you are interested;

And just in case they are not irritating enough, there is alway the ubiquitous ....

Anyways back to the fantastic Dr Suess ladies.......

Did he write as PD Eastman too?

Not read the whole tread but YANBU.

My absolute favourite is
"those who care don't matter, those who matter don't care."

Was ever a truer word spoken?

I love the Lorax... I only discovered it a few months back, but it's easily the best thing I've read in years.

I think Dr Seuss is fantastic, because he combines so many skills. Firstly, he is a fantastic wordsmith, and really knows how to tell a story to children. Secondly, he understands toddler humour and knows how to tap into and extend childhood imagination. And also, as the OP and others have said, he has depth, real profoundness, and the ability to convey some very challenging philosophical truths to parents and kiddies alike.

I'm jealous. I wish I could write like him.

'You know you're in love when you can fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams'

That's my favourite.