Harry Chapin
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Dreams
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
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.
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.
I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
When in doubt, do something.
When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.
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.Collection: Differences
We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Dream
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?Collection: Men
Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Sweet
I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Knowing
All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Commitment
Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Dad
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 thirstyCollection: Writing
All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.Collection: Moon
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.Collection: Lasts
Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.Collection: Pain
I spent a week there one afternoon.Collection: Afternoon
Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.Collection: Nice
Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.Collection: Fire
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.Collection: Rocks
She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.Collection: Dream
I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.Collection: Journey
Reality is only just a word.Collection: Reality
Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.Collection: Stars
You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?Collection: Dream
The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!Collection: Fall
I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.Collection: Crazy
And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?Collection: Laughter
And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.Collection: Taken
I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.Collection: Emergencies
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.Collection: Real
I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?Collection: Singing
But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.Collection: Rocks
And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?Collection: Lying