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“And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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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 quotes

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“Some people would rather look backward then forward because its easier to remember where you've been than to figure out where you are going.”


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“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Bronte quotes (English novelist, noted for Jane Eyre (1847), 1816-1855)
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“You can't look forward and backward at the same time.”
Coleman Young quotes (American politician 1918-1997)

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“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 quotes
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“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.”
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“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
Ann Landers quotes (American Advice columnist, 1918-2002)
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“So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“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.”
Soren Kierkegaard quotes (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)
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“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.”
George Eliot quotes (English Victorian Novelist. Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)

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“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.”
Bennett Cerf quotes (American Author, Publisher, Editor and Founder of Random House. 1898-1971)

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