
Top 100 Back Through Quotes
#1. I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life's chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.
Jolina Petersheim
#2. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.
Francesca Zappia
#3. Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.
Tim Howard
#4. I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!
A.A. Bell
#5. It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.
Marsha Blackburn
#6. Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear.
Benjamin M. Strozykowski
#7. So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents.
Alex Kendrick
#8. I smile and blush, and weave my way back through the dog room to the lobby and into the cat room, because when a boy with two kittens says he loves you, you do whatever you can to get to him as quickly as possible.
Lisa McMann
#9. Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream.
Sam Whitehouse
#10. When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Eve Ensler
#11. He drove the car back through the night to Paris. The hedges and orchards of Normandy flew past him. The moon hung oval and large in the misty sky. The ship was forgotten. Only the landscape remained. The landscape, the smell of hay and ripe apples, the silence and the deep peace of the inevitable
Erich Maria Remarque
#12. For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
Virginia Woolf
#13. No simple cherry picker for me, she thought. I get a time-traveling genius who comes with a world of problems and sends me back through time to fix them.
Karen Marie Moning
#14. Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.
Brian Swimme
#15. They walked back through the village, and Miri kept her eyes on the ground before her. The whole world had shifted, and she was not sure she could keep her feet. She was her ma alive again. When Miri returned, she found Marda moved
Shannon Hale
#16. Alive to the loving past She conjures her own. Nothing is wholly lost - Sun on the stone. And lilacs in their splendor Like lost friends Come back through grief to tell her Love never ends.
May Sarton
#17. Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#18. I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
James D'arcy
#19. When you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology. Atticus
Kevin Hearne
#20. Then he came back through the Square late that Saturday afternoon (there had been a ball game on the High School field) and he heard that Lucas had killed Vinson Gowrie out at Fraser's store;
William Faulkner
#21. I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
Lisa Marie Presley
#22. There are times when you run back through your life, to see whether you can locate the point at which it could still have taken a different turn.
Herman Koch
#23. Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.
Scott Simon
#24. You're soaked, so hungry for my cock." His fingers did another
Up-and-back through her slick, quivering flesh. "Desperate to
feel me thrusting between these pretty lips.
Sherilee Gray
#25. She looked fragile. Alone. Prisoner in the room through the mirror; an Alice who never made it back through the looking-glass.
Joss Stirling
#26. Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.
Molly Ringle
#27. When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear:
Oh darling I wish you were here.
Owl City
#28. A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.
Nora Roberts
#29. was a quiet flight, Ethan's attention divided between staring out his window and glancing back through
Blake Crouch
#30. Think back through your experiences and make a bullet point list of funny stories that have happened to you or your friends. Travel, school, college, parties, work, interaction with parents/in-laws, embarrassing situations, etc. Looking at old photos will help to jog memories.
David Nihill
#31. COME ON, MAHFAHS!' she screamed. 'YOU JUST COME ON! YOU JUST COME FOR EM! I'M GONNA BLOW YO EYES RIGHT BACK THROUGH YO FUCKIN ASSHOLES!
Stephen King
#32. If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.
Nicholas G. Carr
#34. Even if you do not want to, One day
you will look back through your
life ... the Question is, what are you
going to see? How will your rate and
direction of progress make you feel?
Moffat Machingura
#35. She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?
P.C. Cast
#36. Cecilia sipped her tea and imagined herself going back through time and putting that Khrushchev in his place.
Liane Moriarty
#37. Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.
Frederick Buechner
#38. I thought that we had somehow not found our way back correctly through the night, that we had somehow lost ourselves and come back through the wrong gap in time, or the wrong door, or the wrong fairy tale.
Shirley Jackson
#39. We made it through the traps. Though dangerous, I'd go back through them all just to have her wrap her arms around me like that again.#Ren
Colleen Houck
#40. A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.
Charles E. Wilson
#41. You know how the joke goes: On the way to the execution ground, a condemned criminal complained that it was going to rain, and the executioner said, 'What have you got to worry about? We're the ones who've got to go back through it!
Liu Cixin
#42. If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
Kevin Spacey
#43. For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
Barbara Demick
#44. He opened his mouth to respond, closed it. Pushed fingers back through his short hair, then actually laughed. "I suppose we're both horrible people.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#45. It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
William Lacy Clay Jr.
#46. Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.
Eve Ensler
#47. Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol' paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places.
Mary Ann Rivers
#48. I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every happy memory came rushing back through the blackness illuminating it in brilliant color.
S.G. Holster
#49. And together they walked back through the gateway to the Muggle world.
J.K. Rowling
#50. How about we walk back? Through the cemetery?' One thing my mom had taught me is that it's difficult to refuse requests made in italics.
The Harvard Lampoon
#51. Don't make a sound!" she whispered, giving me a little shake. "I need your help."
Damn! She had given the female password - spoken those magic words that stretched back through the mists of time to a bond made in some primordial swamp.
Alan Bradley
#52. This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.
Blake Griffin
#53. You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
Dante Alighieri
#54. As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#55. Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.
James S.A. Corey
#56. The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
George Harrison
#57. To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.
Mark McGwire
#58. When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.
Rod Serling
#59. Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#60. Only later-looking back through the years-do we come to realise those ordinary choices are often the critical turning point in our destiny.
Judy Croome
#61. You lose a certain type of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness.
Rob Sheffield
#62. Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
Yann Martel
#63. But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?
Joanne Harris
#64. The journey back through the house, like all return journeys, felt shorter and less convoluted; the sense of knowing how long the tunnels were and where they ended up was reassuring
Lisa Jewell
#65. If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!
C. Wagner
#66. If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.
David McCullough
#67. And just as in life, if a man imagines himself on his deathbed and then works back through the years of his life, he will make better decisions along the way, knowing the end. Or at the very least, he"ll spend his time more wisely.
Adriana Trigiani
#68. If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
Theodore White
#69. If you trace effect back to cause and that cause back to another cause and so on, back through the long dim corridors of the past until you come to the primordial atom out of which all things were made, you will find the One who made them - you'll find God.
A.W. Tozer
#70. She wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.
Thomas Pynchon
#71. We found it!" Charlotte yelled, as they ran back through the house. "We found it, we found it!"
Eddie, Mr. Mallery, and Colonel Andrews came from separate directions, converging in the front hall. Miss Charming was hopping up and down, her bosom nearly rising to slap her own forehead.
Shannon Hale
#72. From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Erykah Badu
#73. Debbie shuffled back through her notes. "The president of the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company was Whipple Phillips." "Whipple?" chuckled Xela. "Yep." "Don't name 'em like that anymore," said Roger.
Peter Clines
#74. You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness. It's a defeat, in a way.
Rob Sheffield
#75. Hey, little brother." Gabriel came back through the door and flopped on the bed, drawing his legs up to sit against the wall. "Girls are more likely to stay if you don't fight with them.
Brigid Kemmerer
#76. Things look different when you look back through old eyes. The best part is that we learn to forgive our mistakes.
Zohreh Ghahremani
#77. In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull.
Alex, come back.
There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
Lauren Oliver
#78. For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
Natasha Leggero
#79. Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
Eduardo Galeano
#80. I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.
Michael Chang
#81. And came back through heavy rain, with streaming garments, but with a relieved heart.
Charlotte Bronte
#82. Without warning he had become witness to something that stretched back through the eons, ties both elastic and enduring, surpassing death, surpassing life. She was his child. It was as simple as that and that complex.
Kim Harrison
#83. Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
George Pierce Baker
#84. Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
Jeff Koons
#85. I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#86. If you look back through history, most visionaries are one step away from madmen." I
Rysa Walker
#87. I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.
Thomas Piketty
#88. This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
Jandy Nelson
#89. I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
Rogers Hornsby
#90. I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.
Grayson Perry
#91. That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.
Brendan Sexton III
#92. This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We're not just looking into space, we're looking back through time. Our
Blake Crouch
#93. He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.
Andy Roddick
#94. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Diana Gabaldon
#95. I can't go back through time and change things, but I can move forward and create the life I want.
Jessica Sorensen
#96. It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine - each was discovered by one man.
Albert Einstein
#97. I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.
Deborah Blake
#98. Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it ...
Kyle Idleman
#99. What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.
Martin Caidin
#100. I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.
Eve Arnold
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