"People long to go backward in their imagination……" — Gloria Whelan
"People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past."
More Backward Quotes
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jean Cocteau
- Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi