Backward Quotes

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. (Charlotte Brontë)
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. View quote
James Thurber
The historian is a prophet looking backward. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. View quote
Winston Churchill
If I see an ending, I can work backward. View quote
Arthur Miller
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. View quote
Edmund Burke
And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope. View quote
Robert Frost
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. View quote
Ann Landers
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. (Jean Cocteau)
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. View quote
Robert Frost
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
Anne Rice
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing. View quote
André Gide
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Revolutions never go backward. View quote
Wendell Phillips
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. View quote
Beverly Cleary
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. (Patrick Stewart)
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc. View quote
Maurice Allais
Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us? View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin