Top 100 Quotes About Backs
#1. Don't fall.
It seems we've
struggled
for so long.
We've trampled
on the backs
of apes to
clutch the
muddied
hems of
angels.
Alan Moore
#2. The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas
#3. I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I really enjoy sketching women, especially their backs. I definitely need a man in the bedroom, however-a nice strong chest to lie on. Still, I want to explore. Never say never.
Miranda Kerr
#4. Pity the small backs of children, he heard her saying. They carry death for us the second they are born.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#5. If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden
#6. Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.
Chuck D
#7. she was close; a spot to one side called to her. The hairs on the backs of
A.W. Exley
#8. Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
Esther Rolle
#9. We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
Jack Kerouac
#10. I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible.
Ricki Lake
#11. I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.
Sarah Waters
#12. Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.
Anthony Liccione
#13. As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay.
I. W. Gregorio
#14. And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#15. When you begin to see that this assignment of extreme virtue or evil to a person or object is what makes them an object of lust or hatred, the emotion built on that exaggeration backs off; we
Dalai Lama XIV
#16. I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
Billy Crudup
#17. But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a bidding war commenced, amongst these civilized gentlemen who made their living off the backs of slaves.
Jay Grewal
#18. Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around.
Brandon Anthony Lukstein
#19. We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
Albert Camus
#20. The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!
Robert E.Lee
#21. You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.
Joseph Kanon
#22. The only thing that serves to distinguish us, outwardly at least, is that Silvers stand tall. Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.
Victoria Aveyard
#23. I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be ... mwa, I know, but they're always in the bloody road. Even in bed.
Martin Amis
#24. God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Jimmy Carter
#25. The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.
Stephen Crane
#26. Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
#28. Our binges on each other were constructing something behind our backs: the stubborn stains of intimacy marked our hands.
Stephanie Danler
#29. Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
George Osborne
#30. The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We'd all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it.
David Sedaris
#31. If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Honore De Balzac
#32. The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
Al Franken
#33. the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of boats, nets hung neatly between the outside and the in, keeping floundering secrets firmly hidden...
Jon McGregor
#34. It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
Jim Hightower
#35. If we do nothing ... and turn our backs now, in future generations, when rank corruption masquerades as libery, it will be upon our shoulders. True patriots will then ask why we who were there to witness our nation at the crossroads did nothing.
David Liss
#36. Of course, no other world was carried through the starry infinity on the backs of four giant elephants, who were themselves perched on the shell of a giant turtle.
Terry Pratchett
#37. Love Egoist
Sumire: At first, I was simply fighting the image others forced on me. It's true that it's kind of fun to curse people behind their backs, but ... I know it's not nice and it makes me feel depressed afterward.
Bisco Hatori
#38. Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea
Sarah Hymas
#39. The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.
Anne Sexton
#40. These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
Robert Jordan
#41. When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.
Mark Driscoll
#42. Never leave yourself open to regret Grace. We can only make a decision when we know the choices we are faced with. If we shy away, turn our backs and hide, we will simply never know. And that is when you end up old and wondering and regretting. Live a life of hope. Don't live a life of regret.
Hazel Gaynor
#43. Right, wrong - those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.
Peter David
#44. Placid, adj.
Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
David Levithan
#45. [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.
Henry James
#46. That was six years ago. We can't keep turning our backs on chances to live or...at least stop denying ourselves pleasure.
Ally Fleming
#47. You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.
Jerome Bettis
#48. We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.
Howard Schultz
#49. Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again.
Beryl Markham
#50. When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in ... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.
Steve Jobs
#51. My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.
Michael Marshall Smith
#52. I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.
T. J. Miller
#53. No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
Diana Vreeland
#54. I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.
Monty Roberts
#55. You make one tribe out of twelve," I finally say. "By taking slaves."
Just like the Society. Build on the backs of others. It isn't cruel. It is practical.
Pierce Brown
#56. No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.
Cordell Hull
#57. Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
Boris Kodjoe
#58. Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.
John Krasinski
#59. O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.
Comte De Lautreamont
#60. To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.
Marjane Satrapi
#61. That's why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.
Roger Hutchinson
#62. May the wind rise under your wings, may the sun always be at your backs, and may you catch your prey napping. And, Wolf-Eyes, I hope that when you find the one who left your paws in his traps, you do not kill him too quickly. Both
Christopher Paolini
#63. You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.
Ayelet Waldman
#64. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.
Eric Nicol
#65. I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.
Tyra Banks
#66. Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'
Marilyn Manson
#68. That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.
Thomas Hobbes
#69. As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them - no matter how much it inconveniences us or hurts our backs!
Constance Marie
#70. It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld
#71. Treat failure as feed-backs and you will find that success becomes a matter of time
John C.
#72. People there's a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le'Veon Bell. He's on his way people.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#73. I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
Taylor Swift
#74. Circumstances are the lashes laid on to us by life. Some of us have to receive them with bared ivory backs, and others are permitted to keep on a coat
that is the only difference.
Oscar Wilde
#75. Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi
on your back.
Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.
Natsuki Takaya
#76. Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.
David Benioff
#77. Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
David Eagleman
#78. I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
Janet Morris
#79. Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.
Hines Ward
#80. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.
Elizabeth Lesser
#81. Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.
Bassam Tibi
#82. They retained their wooden souls, and the curve of their backs had the enigmatic shape of growth itself and remained a part of the decaying forest
Tove Jansson
#83. The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.
Tom DeLay
#84. They were Catholic, my lovers,
All in an access of crossing themselves,
Particularly their fingers
Behind their suspendered backs
And that was the women.
Shay Caroline
#85. A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!
Heather Thomson
#86. Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.
Harold Ballard
#87. Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
Gautama Buddha
#88. My teammates, they put me on their backs and they wouldn't let me down.
Jerome Bettis
#89. Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.
Suzanne Collins
#90. So I'm your huntress and thief?" His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, "You are my salvation, Feyre.
Sarah J. Maas
#91. I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.
George Blagden
#92. What do you mean? Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.
Patricia Briggs
#93. Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.
Melody Carlson
#94. I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. When they have risen to public prominence on the backs of the gay community that they are part of and they prey on, I think that's absolutely deserving of outing.
Rachel Maddow
#95. They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.
Richard Kadrey
#96. I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
Adam Garcia
#97. I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
Quentin Crisp
#98. The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.
Wladimir Klitschko
#99. Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs.
Molly Friedenfeld
#100. Dr. Lecter, erect as a dancer and carrying Starling in his arms, came out from behind the gate, walked barefoot out of the barn, through the pigs. Dr. Lecter walked through the sea of tossing backs and bloodspray in the barn.
Thomas Harris
