120 Quotes by Harry Chapin

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.

It’s got to be the going, not the getting there, that’s good.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I’d rather make a mistake than do nothing.

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