Backward Quotes

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

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.

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

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Forward ever, backward never.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

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

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.