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
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
George Gaylord Simpson
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
Amar'e Stoudemire
You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
Coleman Young
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Marshall McLuhan
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Arthur Miller