(192 quotes found)
“You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.”
Chief Joseph
“You can't look forward and backward at the same time.”
Coleman Young
“But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings backwards and forwards, / And tilts up his chair.”
Heinrich Hoffman
“When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.”
Stephen Fry
“Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire”
Dan Zevin
“There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: / On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: / But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
Bible
“The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup”
Robert Frost
“Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor
“Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.”
Patricia Russell-McCloud
