Backward Quotes

“What is heavy forward but not backward?”

— Jeevna Bajaja

“Only a fool walks into the future backward.”

— Anonymous

Forward ever, backward never.

— Maurice Bishop

To continue in one path is to go backward.

— Igor Stravinsky

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want Europe to go forward, not backward.

— Frans Timmermans

I start with the joke line and write backward.

— Nipsey Russell

“Stagnation kills consciousness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

— Khaleda Zia

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

— Anonymous

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

— Douglas Coupland

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks…

— Tom Wolfe

“Time doesn't only flow forward; it also flows backward.”

— Joey Lawsin

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

— Gary Hamel

“Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true?”

— Karen Essex

The E.U. is a backward-looking project based on an economic model of the 20th century.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

— Charles C. Mann

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward…

— Ambrose Bierce

Never regret when something has gone wrong & dont look backward. Only time to look backward is to ponder what has gone…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.

— Greg Maddux

I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is…

— Mayawati

I had my pants backward, cut a hole in my baseball cap, stuck my ponytail through it . I wanted to be…

— Da Brat

“If I have been more backward in seeking her society, it is because I do not like her, and my acquaintance amongst…

— Sarah Harriet Burney

I can't stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don't like to pretend. And I will not change either.

— Granit Xhaka

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in…

— Lynda Barry

“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out. This whole night…

— Gayle Forman

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read.…

— John Updike

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford…

— James Gray

“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind & the gibberish of trees…

— Lauren Oliver

“Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you…

— Carol Shields

“If only life could be lived backward, we'd know the mistakes not to make,' Kylee thought, 'and instead of losing all we…

— Alex London

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass.…

— Jesse L. Martin

“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You…

— Lauren Oliver

“Sometimes I Reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get…

— Nicola Yoon

“Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it.…

— Charles Yu

“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step…

— John Crowley

“I like to pretend that the years alter and revalue, but begin to see that time does nothing but enlarge without mutation.…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Technocrats tell us we can’t go backward, we can’t refuse technology, because then we won’t progress. We are told that life is…

— Yvon Chouinard

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

— Belva Ann Lockwood

Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.

— Bert Sugar