Backwards Quote by Marge Piercy Download Open image “History is a game played backwards only.” — Marge Piercy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backwards Game Play Games History
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it. — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
