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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

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

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

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.168, Penguin

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

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