Top Backward Quotes
Forward ever, backward never.
Maurice Bishop
I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
Jim Coleman
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos
Jim Coleman 
Yo-Yo Ma 
Charlotte Bronte 
Arthur Miller 
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael N. Castle 
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
Beverly Cleary
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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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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
Syd Barrett
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
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What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
Stanley Crouch
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Popular Backward Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonWinston ChurchillH. L. MenckenAbraham LincolnEdmund BurkeKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelLoretta LynnMarshall McLuhanJames ThurberJean CocteauTodd BarryNaguib MahfouzStephen GardinerJohn McCarthyArthur Miller
Stephen FryPatrick StewartEllsworth HuntingtonJesse JacksonJosef AlbersMichael N. CastleCharlotte BronteStanley CrouchStokely CarmichaelJim ColemanAnn LandersCharles E. WilsonJim BakkerBeverly ClearyBurt Lancaster
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