John Glenn Quotes

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to ... ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

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.

The past is over.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

If you live in the past, you've got no future.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.