Looking Back Quotes

514 quotes by 449 authors

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of… — Vivienne Westwood
In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened… — Dave Eggers
The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Re-vision â€“ the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€“ is for… — Adrienne Rich
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval… — John Knowles
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed,… — William Gaddis
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was… — Ann Brashares
Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. — Hillary Clinton
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise… — Khaled Hosseini
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our… — James Redfield
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same… — Sarah Dessen
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. — Terry Tempest Williams
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,… — Franz Kafka
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from… — William Gibson
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful… — John Milton
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman

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