Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. — Abraham Lincoln
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the… — Yo-Yo Ma
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of… — H. L. Mencken
I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I… — Michael Moore
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history… — Grandma Moses
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. — Robert Mugabe
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity… — Nathan Myhrvold
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable… — Henri Nouwen
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents'… — Philip Pullman
When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't… — Terry Pratchett
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. — Mickey Rourke
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get… — Donald Rumsfeld
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments… — Paul Ryan
I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that… — Jon Scieszka
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while… — Rick Springfield
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us… — Patrick Stewart
I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go… — Alison Sweeney
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. — Taylor Swift

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