Backwards Quote by Helen Keller

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

— Ambrose Bierce

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

— Honore de Balzac

As a youth, Time moves faster than when one was a kid and sure when one is old. There's something wrong with this fact.…

— Terry Mark

I really do believe that youth comes from how you look at the world.

— Sutton Foster

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

— May Sarton

Why is youth so short and age so long?

— Ouida

Young people are the future of the world.

— Skip Marley