Yip Harburg Quotes

#1. Look for loyal ministers in homes with filial sons

Thomas Cleary

#2. Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value.

Paulo Coelho

#3. 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

#4. Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.

Lawren Leo

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.

Yip Harburg

#8. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

W.S. Gilbert

#9. If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

Yip Harburg

#10. Everyone's thought that: maybe even if, maybe we still could, maybe small bits of precious things can be salvaged. No one with cop-on thinks it after the first try. But her voice, quiet and sad, shimmering the air into those pearly colors: for a second I believed it, all over again.

Tana French

#11. Music gives 'wings' to words.

Yip Harburg

#12. This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

Yip Harburg

#13. Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

Yip Harburg

#14. How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?

Yip Harburg

#15. No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.

Yip Harburg

#16. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.

Matt Haig

#17. 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

#18. If your as good as your word, words should be good enough.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

Henri Matisse

#20. I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

Andre Leon Talley

#21. The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

Yip Harburg

#22. Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Yip Harburg

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

Yip Harburg

#24. Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

Yip Harburg

#25. 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

#26. It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be.

Yip Harburg

#27. The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Enid Blyton

#28. Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.

Yip Harburg

#29. Life depends on what is in your heart.

Sara Alexi

#30. It's nice to feel loved instead of feeling hated.

Tito Ortiz

#31. 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

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

Yip Harburg

#33. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

Yip Harburg

#34. 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

#35. The Trump Card is appealing, grounded, smart, and has a sense of humor. Ivanka Trump proves that believing in yourself and working hard never go out of style.

Anna Wintour

#36. My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

Yip Harburg

#37. 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

#38. Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?

Yip Harburg

#39. A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

Yip Harburg

#40. My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Johnny Cash

#41. I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.]

Horace

#42. My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.

Yip Harburg