120 Quotes by Harry Chapin

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

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.

Oh all the times I’ve listened, and all the times I’ve heard All the melodies I’m missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I’d love to find we had that kind of choice again.

You see, I have no real complaints of how you’ve left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you’ve erased him from your mind.

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 high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you’re watching very closely The rock slips a little bit...

Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That’s why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies – like no money.

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