Looking Back Quotes

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

~ Edna Ferber

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

~ Albert Claude

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

~ Ray Stannard Baker

When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'

~ Raina Telgemeier

In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize it was pretty cool.

~ Prince Fielder

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

~ Alan G. Poindexter

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

~ James Turrell

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

~ Rene Burri

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

~ Andie Macdowell

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

~ Patrick Dewitt

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

~ Junior Seau

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

~ Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?

~ Howard Jacobson

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

~ Abraham Verghese

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

~ Bonnie Blair

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

~ Philip Johnson

My guess is that my mom and dad are very actively involved in the affairs of the next life, and they don't spend too much time looking back. My dad used to say he always looks forward; he never looks back.

~ Mitt Romney

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

~ Paul Berg

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

~ Ginger Rogers

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

~ David Bowie

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

~ Sugar Ray Leonard