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"backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." »Wolcott Gibbs
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." »Charlotte Bronte
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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." »James Grover Thurber
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"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward." »Lewis Carroll
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"Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still." »Patricia Russell-McCloud
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"What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?" »William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
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"What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?" »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still." »Patricia Russell-McCloud
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"And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward." »Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears"
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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." »Margaret Fairless Barber
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck." »Author Unknown
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"So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side." »Victor Hugo
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"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." »Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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"How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time." »C. C. Colton
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"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people." »Jan Ashford
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"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." »Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"
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