Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band.… — Fred Armisen
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. — Bob Beauprez
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your… — Jeff Bezos
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the… — Michael N. Castle
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. — Jean Cocteau
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep… — Jean Cocteau
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual… — Booth Tarkington
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… — Chief Joseph
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have… — William Ruckelshaus
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. — Charles Simmons
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,… — Khalil Gibran
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. — Robert Frost
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get… — Erica Jong

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