Henry Beard Quotes

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

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

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

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

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.