Backward Movement Quotes

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Running backwards down the stairs, holding the camera, trying to focus on what's in front of you is difficult, and you need to be able to protect the camera.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

I practice going backward all the time.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

We have had people for so many generations dumbed down, literally dumbed down, who are now in positions of awesome and extreme power with influence over others, that we're paralyzed. And, if we're not paralyzed, we are backtracking and moving backwards. We are actually regressing, I should say, from magnificent progress that we as a nation and a culture and society have taken over hundreds of years.