Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

- George Gaylord Simpson

You either use the Internet or you are backward.

- Lee Kuan Yew

Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.

- Kate Micucci

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

- Jim Bakker

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

- Jean Cocteau

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

- Isabel Allende

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

- Hilary Putnam

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

- Honor Blackman

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

- Hans Rosling

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

- Alice Walker

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

- Emily Greene Balch

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

- Edmund Burke

Dog is God spelled backward.

- Duane Chapman

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

- Coleman Young

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

- Charles E. Wilson

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

- Burt Lancaster

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

- Amar'e Stoudemire

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

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

- Arthur Miller