11 Harry Chapin Quotes on Hope

Harry Chapin quotes on hope

3. I'm in the danceband on the Titanic Singing 'Nearer my God to thee' and the iceburgs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

8. 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.

18. 'And it shamed me into silence, as quietly she said, 'If you want me to come with you, then that's all right with me. Cause I know I'm going nowhere, and anywhere's a better place to be. Anywhere's a better place to be.''

21. The waitress took a bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes. And as she spoke her voice came out as something like a sigh. She said 'I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind. And I wish I weren't so dog-gone fat, I wish that you were mine. And I wish that you'd come with me, when I leave for home. For we both know all about loneliness, and livin' all alone.'

26. 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.

30. Corey's coming, no more sad stories coming My midnight-moonlight-morning-glory's coming aren't you girl? And like I told you, when she holds you She enfolds you in her world.

34. But there still must be a way to have our children say... '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.' (Live version)

37. She said, 'I wanna learn a love song full of happy things.' She said, 'I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?' She said, 'I wanna learn a love song, I wanna hear you play.' She said, 'I wanna learn a love song before you go away.'

48. And I feel 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', I know we're needing something worth believing in.

71. 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.

90. I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous. I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school. Of the America that made America famous...and Of the people who just might understand That how together yes we can Create a country better than The one we have made of this land, We have a choice to make each man who dares to dream, reaching out his hand A prophet or just a crazy God damn Dreamer of a fool