Backwards Quotes

• I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Walk
  • Slow
  • Backwards

• Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Heart
  • Backwards
  • 707

• It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Youth
  • Headstrong

• When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Picture

• Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Words
  • Lose
  • Forward

• Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Step
  • Simpler

• And love is 'evol'; spell it backwards. I'll show you.

  

  Eminem
  • Love
  • Backwards
  • Spell

• I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Art

• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Backwards
  • Check
  • Minorities

• Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Want
  • Easy
  • Forwards

• You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Learn
  • Alphabet
  • Forwards

• I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Backwards

• Ya'll are Eminem backwards, you're mini-mes

  

  Eminem
  • Backwards
  • Eminem

• The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dog

• Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Long
  • Look
  • Very

• They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Evil

• Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.

  

  Sara Evans
  • Backwards

• I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

  

  William H. Seward
  • World
  • Knows
  • Revolution

• My response to them is that?s looking backwards.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Response
  • Backwards

• You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ahead
  • Objective

• To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

  

  William Penn
  • Religion
  • Authority
  • Conviction

• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Forward
  • Backwards
  • Dots

• When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Silence
  • Records
  • Larger

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