Characteristics Quote by Larry McMurtry

It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed…

— John Crowe Ransom

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

— Edward Bellamy

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

— Fulton J. Sheen

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

— Charles Yu

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

— Roberto Azevedo

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

— Jim Bakker

It's never said out aloud, or in so many words, but for many urban, upper caste Indians, 'the backwards' are precisely that - citizens…

— Barkha Dutt

One should look forward rather than backwards.

— Anna Wintour

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

— Henry Ward Beecher