Harry Chapin Quotes

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

Reality is only just a word.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, “Take me away.

If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

When in doubt, do something.

The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.