Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever. — Jean Paul
Revolutions never go backward. — William H. Seward
Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the… — Alan K. Simpson
Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we… — Abraham Lincoln
I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth… — Elizabeth Warren
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today,… — Richard Leakey
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down. — Isabel Allende
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and… — Vladimir Putin
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult… — George W. S. Trow
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and… — Martin Jacques
The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that… — Martha Beck
Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward. — Kate Micucci
I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory… — Kip Thorne
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. — Kip Thorne
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward. — Amar'e Stoudemire
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us… — Madison Smartt Bell
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. — Wolcott Gibbs
It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress,… — Richard Carlson

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