Oscar Hammerstein II famous quotes

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Beauty #Beautiful #Morning

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Kindness

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Believe #Men #Brotherhood

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Love #Inspirational #Life

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Love #Song #Heart

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Music #Dream #Dreams Come True

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Tragedy #Despair #Modern

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Stars #Brave #Young Love

Hello, Young Lovers, Wherever You Are.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Love #Young Love #Lovers

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Golden #Chance #Shyness

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Courage #Heart #Walks

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Restless #Restlessness

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Optimism #Optimist

Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Oklahoma #Wind

For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Courage #People #Fool

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Music #Song #Years

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#August #Kansas #Corny

Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Cities #Kansas City #Kansas

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Bird #Swim #Fishes

The dearest things I know are what you are.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Men #Bird #Swim

Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Mean #Secret #Lines

I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Guy #Wonderful

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Hate #Taught

The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Laughter #Heart #Gay

June is bustin' out all over.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Summer #June

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Music #Teacher #Taught

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Eye #People #Tolerance

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Girl #Mom #Daughter

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Hope #Heart #Walks

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Beautiful #Dream #Sweet

I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Running #Heart #Cutting

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Dog #Feelings #Feeling Sad

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Peace #Work #Ubuntu

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Wise #Men #Giving

Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Real #Giving #Perfection

There is Nothing Like a Dame.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Women #Dames

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#May #Rooms #Evening

These are a few of my favorite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Tragedy #Favorites Things #My Favorite