We continually move backward and forward in time as we use…

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

— Tom Harkin

“We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it’s to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with…

— Amy Rachiele

It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed…

— John Crowe Ransom

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

— Doug Liman

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

— May Sarton

“...but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.”

— Kate Atkinson

“For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.”

— Herman Melville

“I have found that sometimes in the quest for knowledge, you must go backward before you can move forward" -Abia”

— Chris Grabenstein

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

— Dan Simmons

Pain changes you. Like a gale force wind, it drives you backward or forward, depending on how you set your sail.

— Anonymous

“I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.”

— Frank Herbert

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

— John L. Casti

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

— Eleanor Coppola

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

— John Burnham Schwartz