Backs Quotes

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs.
They were always indignantly leaving places.
- John Cheever

No one cuts backs like he did.
No one knows what a back is anymore.
- Diana Vreeland

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing
the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
- William Feather

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they
didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms.
They just put them there with Velcro.
- Andy Van Slyke

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down.
I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it.
It was hard.
- John Astin

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're
going to carry the elephants on their backs.
- Jim Hightower

The Constitution is not neutral.
It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
- William O. Douglas

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field.
And not actually the player that fears him,
it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
- Jamal Lewis

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting
government off the backs of the people and now he demands
that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
- Ralph Nader

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that
will turn their backs on neighbors.
- Wynton Marsalis

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
- Charles Dickens

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist
usually is in the work of any other,
with the possible exception of the teacher who backs
him or the student who honors him.
- Jean Rostand

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their
backs they've had a bad day.
- John Madden

Sometimes we used to eat once a day...
chicken backs.
You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
- Raul Julia

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs.
Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't,
they'd spit on me in the street.
- Hugh Jackman

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
- Karl Marx

If we really want to achieve true prayer,
we must turn our backs upon everything temporal,
everything external, everything that is not divine.
- Johannes Tauler

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and
on television backs itself up.
If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us,
that's fine.
- Tina Yothers

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,
but comes through continuous struggle.
And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.
A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because
they thought I was a troublemaker.
- Fred Korematsu

I really don't look at comparing things that way because
even in a 14-game season,
there could be a running back who could have a lot
more carries than other running backs.
- Franco Harris

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely
turn their backs on their historical dishes,
no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
- Nick Clooney

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut,
and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
- Dick Morris

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
- Roger Babson

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
- Charles L. Allen

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000
in public debt riding on our backs.
- Paul Gillmor

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues
and turn their backs on people that we are fond of
and love just because we hurt;
and everybody goes through that.
- Boris Kodjoe

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now,
and we will continue to see how they progress.
- Jerry Jones

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs,
sucking the life out of us.
- Malcolm Wilson

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat
and dunes photographed like women's backs.
- Kristin Scott Thomas

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs
and play like they're full of themselves.
You know, I don't care about posing.
I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
- Bill Kreutzmann

The danger that we have right now are people who get
the same information as I do and,
therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions
that haven't traded as long,
don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.
- Jim Cramer

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America
will awake with holy boldness,
a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words
but that backs up those words with action and results.
- Frank R. Wolf

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line
of traditional great backs at USC,
to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your
parents are like icons...
that's the greatest thing.
- Marcus Allen

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business,
and you have to have the strength to survive all the
set backs all the failures that make this a mean business,
that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
- Robert Redford

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path,
give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony:
on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire,
and their foreheads, and their sides,
and their backs shall be branded therewith.
- Kin Hubbard

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living:
they never flatter us to our faces,
nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy,
nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
- Charles Caleb Colton

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll

Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

When the World Frowns, I Smile Back.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every moment wasted looking back
keeps us from moving forward.
- Hilary Clinton

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that anger is always fear and frustration.
What if we could lean back into the arms of Spirit
and trust the future?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw

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