#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. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#brain #day #forward #history #hope

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attempt #backward #determination #go #might

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#begin #civilization #either #else #few

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#ago #backwards #becoming #completely #fell

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#confession #got #i #just #know

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#bit #fact #forwards #i #like

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

#african americans #backward #black #colleges #days

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#better #child #committed #countries #demand

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#globalization #hard #hundred #i #like

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#backward #get #give #goal #goals