Robert Plant Quotes

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

You have it, madam.

I gave away most of my trophies, put away the plaques.

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

It's nice to be remembered.

In a lot of ways life has come full circle for me, which I'm very grateful for.

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

Looking back and thinking about the past and what I've done makes no sense - I'd like to keep achieving things. Then, when I retire, I will appreciate everything that's happened and everything I've achieved.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.