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look backward
«A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.»
Author: Anna Mary Robertson Moses
| About:
Hope,
Mankind,
Memory
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, look backward, painter, paints, paint a picture, pictures, recorded
«Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| Keywords:
ahead, backward, future, gets, lies, look backward, nobody
«There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.»
«I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Trying
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, look backward, upward
«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.»
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
| About:
Cricket
| Keywords:
backward, blackball, cricket ball, equipoise, flat, ghostly, look backward, orb, orbs, shapes, The Empire, twin
«The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, come forward, farther, forward, forwarding, forwards, furthest, likely, look, look backward, see, The Forward
«People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Posterity
| Keywords:
look backward, posterity
«In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.»
«And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, forward, look backward, pride, Pride and, with pride
«It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
backward, backwards, backward and forward, forwards, intelligible, look backward, pondered, pondering, ponders, position, precisely, Quiet Life, temporal