Their Backs Quotes
96 quotes by 92 authors
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I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe…
— Michael Arad
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands…
— Peter Greenaway
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Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary…
— Peter Greenaway
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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have…
— Laozi
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest…
— Claude Monet
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I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an…
— Ricki Lake
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Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.
— Boonaa Mohammed
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When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs…
— Catherine Webb
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
— Hilary Mantel
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We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as…
— Walter Weyl
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Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.
— Max Lucado
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The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall.…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with…
— Henry James
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees…
— Katarina Witt
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What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their…
— Richard Louv
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I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing.…
— Bill Kreutzmann
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It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their…
— Tim Cahill
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely…
— John Muir
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It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a…
— John Bunyan
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I want my teammates to know I have their backs.
— Bryce Harper
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