Looking Back Quotes - Page 19

• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  Deborah Tall

  Children, Video, Looks

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

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• Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all.

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Writing, Blessing, I Can

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2015

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• Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Religious, Caring

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• It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Crazy, Photographer, Realizing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

  Bryan Fuller

  Drug, Friendly, Monsters

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

  Robert Breault

  Experience, Realizing, Interrupting

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• Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.

  Desmond Morris

  Sex, Loyal, Might

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

  Paula Cole

  Couple, Too Much, Facts

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• When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

  Kirk Douglas

  Over You, Surprise, Get Over

  "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

  Colin Baker

  Proud, Revision, Stories

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.

  Samantha Stosur

  Moving, Home, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.

  Tim Walker

  Thinking, Ideas, Simplicity

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• I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.

  Lois Lowry

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

  Ben Rector

  Heart, Perfect, Ashes

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• Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Achievement, Done, Proud

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• I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Cities

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed on the Christ Who died, not the Christ Who LIVES. They are looking back to the Redeemer Who was, not the redeemer who IS.

  John G. Lake

  Christian, Men, Feet

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• It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mistake, May, Path

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.87, Random House

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• I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

  Alice Bag

  Want, Proud, Ends

  "The Rumpus Interview With Alice Bag" by Niina Pollari, therumpus.net. May 25, 2012.

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• If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end, looking back, you know its worth it.

  Amy Dumas

  Heart, Ends, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Letting Go, Wine, Ideas

  Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.21, Penguin

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• I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

  Jane Asher

  Ideas, Looks

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• I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing.

  Mario Savio

  Religious, Giving, Political

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Kids, Light, Giving

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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