All Quotes by Yip Harburg
“Once I built a railroad, I made it run, Brother, can you spare a dime?”
“I never knew the charm of spring My heart...”
“Say, its only a paper moon If you believed in me.”
“Without your love If you believed in me.”
“Some day I'll wish upon a star Why then, oh why can't I?”
“Follow the yellow brick road.”
“We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.”
“You’re out of the woods And bid it open.”
“To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse.”
“Life is short, short, brother! Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?”
“On the day I was born, Follow the fellow who follows a dream.”
“How are things in Glocca Morra? Through Killybegs, Kilkerry and Kildare?”
“So I ask each weepin' willow This fine day?”
“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.”
“When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.”
“When the idle poor or who is which.”
“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.”
“No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.”
“WHERE and WHEN Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.”
“Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!"”
“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.”
“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.”
“No matter how much I probe and prod, Unswervingly believes in me.”
“And only God who makes the tree Can make a God, who makes a tree.”
“My heart is like the willow While there's another spring.”