So where did you hear this, please give up a link.
"Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become." - Abigail Van Buren
"In youth we learn; in age we understand." - Marie von Ebner-Eshenbach
"A dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream." - W.C. Fields
"I'd rather die on my feet than live a lifetime on my knees."- Emiliano Zapata
"Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds up to be."Abraham Lincoln
"Take time to repair the roof when the sun is shining." John F. Kennedy
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - The Buddha