Backwards Quotes - Page 2
We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
At Rochester on the Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858
When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.
"Song: 'Electioneering'". 1997.
"Speech". February 17, 1861.
Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.17, Head of Zeus
At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc
David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.168, Penguin
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.153, Random House
Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books
Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).
The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.
Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt