Harry Chapin Quotes

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• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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

  Harry Chapin

  Differences, Making A Difference, Care

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• No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

  Harry Chapin

  Cutting, Lines, Dead Ends

  Song: Circle, 1972

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

  Harry Chapin

  Moving, World, Ready

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• 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?

  Harry Chapin

  Men, Time On Earth, World

  Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Success, Children, Believe

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

  Harry Chapin

  Heart, Eye, People

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• And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Rain, Writing

  Song: Story Of A Life, 1980

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• I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

  Harry Chapin

  Mistake

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

  Harry Chapin

  Mean, Want, Facts

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• The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

  Harry Chapin

  Knowing, Wish, Age

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• When in doubt, do something.

  Harry Chapin

  Live Life, Compassion, Doubt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Harry Chapin

  Better Place

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• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Commitment, Thinking, Impact

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

  Harry Chapin

  Children, Future, World

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• There are so many colors in the rainbow
  So many colors in the morning sun
  So many colors in the flower and I see every one.

  Harry Chapin

  Morning, Flower, Color

  Song: Flowers Are Red, 2007

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• Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Pay, Good Dream

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Two, Goal, World

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• The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

  Harry Chapin

  Teacher, Art, Flower

  Song: Flowers Are Red, 2007

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• That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

  Harry Chapin

  Lasts, Actresses, Said

  Song: Sequel

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

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  Dad, Home, Cat

  Song: Cats In The Cradle

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• And I dream that something's coming
  And it's not just in the wind
  It's more than just tomorrow
  It's more than where we've been
  It offers me a promise
  It's telling me, begin!

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Hope, Wind

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• Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

  Harry Chapin

  Writing, Kids, Guitar

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.

  Harry Chapin

  Trying, Looks, Cry

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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