Yip Harburg famous quotes

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
-- Yip Harburg

#Valentines Day #Lost Love #Moon

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be.
-- Yip Harburg

#World #Phony

My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
-- Yip Harburg

#Heart #Wings #Roots

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
-- Yip Harburg

#Dream

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
-- Yip Harburg

#Hero #Today #Tomorrow

Leave the atom alone.
-- Yip Harburg

#Science #Atoms

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.
-- Yip Harburg

#Believe #Matter #Prove

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
-- Yip Harburg

#Flower #Health #Tree

Follow the yellow brick road.
-- Yip Harburg

#Yellow #Bricks #Brick Roads

I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.
-- Yip Harburg

#Beautiful #Believe #Journey

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
-- Yip Harburg

#Wicked #Witch

There ought to be a law against necessity.
-- Yip Harburg

#Law

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.
-- Yip Harburg

#Men #Space #World

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
-- Yip Harburg

#Rainbow #Littles #Pilots

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
-- Yip Harburg

#Life #Girl

Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
-- Yip Harburg

#Valentines Day #Stupid #Kissing

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
-- Yip Harburg

#Moon #Sea #Sailing

Virtue is its own revenge.
-- Yip Harburg

#Revenge #Drinking #Virtue

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
-- Yip Harburg

#Dance #Song #Thinking

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made 'em both a little bit naive.
-- Yip Harburg

#Ems #Littles #Lord

I am a rebel by birth. ... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity . My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest .
-- Yip Harburg

#Strong #Thinking #Feelings

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today . Socrates and Galileo , John Brown, Thoreau , Christ , and Debs Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!
-- Yip Harburg

#Hero #Night #Greatness

WHERE and WHEN :;Are lost in space. THERE and THEN :;Do not embrace. So before we disappear Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
-- Yip Harburg

#Sweet #Kissing #Space

No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
-- Yip Harburg

#Thrones #Matter

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country', I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
-- Yip Harburg

#Country #Song #Philosophy

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
-- Yip Harburg

#Women #Eagles #Amelia

Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
-- Yip Harburg

#Brother #Done #Railroads

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"
-- Yip Harburg

#Mother #Children #Believe

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
-- Yip Harburg

#Country #Immigration #Trouble

Someday I'll wish upon a star.
-- Yip Harburg

#Stars #Desire #Wish

For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
-- Yip Harburg

#Cutting #Thankfulness #Missionary

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
-- Yip Harburg

#Rich #Poor #Idle

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
-- Yip Harburg

#Holiday #Paris #Tree

How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
-- Yip Harburg

#Fine