Ted Koppel Life Quotations

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

My mother was born in the year 1899 and I was sitting there on New Year's Day in 1999 saying, 'God, I wish my grandfather had written a book about life in his time,' ... And then I thought, well, maybe I'll try and do it, and initially I sat down to do it more for the family than anything else.