#backward

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#beliefs #bent #dangerous #fact #fanatics

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#farther #forward #look #see #you

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#backward #finest #finest hour #forward #hour

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#bend #get #heads #our #over

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#clothing #doing #exists #infant #know

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#backwards #become #decided #feel #i

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #gave #mickey #mickey mouse #money

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#enough #going #just #like #really