Reach Back Quotes

#1. When you want something as powerful and necessary as love, you don't reach back, you reach forward.

Tom Cardamone

#2. If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of what we touch, do what a reptile would do if it were to set about writing!

Emil M. Cioran

#3. I'm not dangerous at all I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob.Renesmee dropped Edward's hand to reach back and pat Jacob's arm.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

Amy Grant

#5. To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.
To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

Brian L. Weiss

#6. I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. To bad I drew my mistakes in ink.

Emery Lord

#7. 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

#8. The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around.

Kendare Blake

#9. Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back ... I'm telling you.

Matthew Quick

#10. I wanted to reach back to other times I might have lived in, the traces of which are scattered to places I previously thought imaginary.

Hassan Blasim

#11. We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

Michelle Obama

#12. True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.

Joel Osteen

#13. In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#14. The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. ghost44: And if the person doesn't reach back?
johnnyrotten: Then they don't reach back. Only you have to believe they will, or you're not really reaching.

Todd Mitchell

#16. Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it - His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.

Geoffrey Wood

#17. Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

Tim Gunn

#18. Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team. I have continuity across different films that I've done. I was even fortunate enough to reach back and include people that had worked on Horton with me, as well.

Christopher Meledandri

#19. I liked the myth elements of Christmas. The way in which its origins reach back far beyond Jesus, to the rituals of people unknown to us. The celebration of the winter solstice. The coming of light in the darkest time.

Robert B. Parker

#20. When life reaches out with a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back.

Matthew Quick

#21. Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

Karen Hughes

#22. 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

#23. We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

Paul Tsongas

#24. With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.

Malik Yusef

#25. Being successful doesn't necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Joel Osteen

#26. Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. I Love You

and your perfect ask

'Would you scratch my back?' is enough

to stretch out hands because folk who love

happily scratch backs where a person can't reach

John Lavan

#28. Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Louise Erdrich

#29. You can try and hold me back. Build your damn walls, pack sandbags along the edges and yell at the clouds and the rain and the sky to stop.
But i will not relent. I will reach you. Because i am the sea. And i will continue to love you no matter what.

Pleasefindthis

#30. Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?

How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?

But not this one.

Amie Kaufman

#32. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

#33. As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace.

Joyce Carol Oates

#34. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Michael Phelps

#35. of nightmares to reach, to seize. Joy. But where can I seize this holy grail of joy? I look back down to the page. Was this the clue to the quest of all most important? Deep chara joy is found only at the table of the euCHARisteo - the table of thanksgiving.

Ann Voskamp

#36. There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

B.C. Forbes

#37. Look around your competitors and learn from them.
Look within for your talents and exploit them.
Look back at your failures and learn from them.
Look forward to your successes and reach for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

Wendell Berry

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

Kirk Douglas

#40. Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

Mary Slessor

#41. Back then I knew exactly what I wanted. Now that I've gotten it ... I don't know, it seems the cleverer you are, the more goals there are just outside one's reach.

Richard Finney

#42. Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.

Sundar Pichai

#43. A perfect balance is possible to imagine, but impossible to reach, so one is always trembling along an arc from too excited to too bored and back again. Everything we love most - be it sweetheart or flower - looks majestic because it seems to be trembling out of balance. While

Diane Ackerman

#44. What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50
years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from how it tasted at 30.

Ravindra Shukla

#45. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

Paula Hawkins

#46. At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

Isabel Allende

#47. As one of the little streams starts snaking my way, inching closer to the toe of my shoe, I hop over the spreading puddle and out of its reach. I don't look back to see if it's going to follow me. I'm already three blocks away and still gaining speed

M.A. George

#48. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

Carrie Vaughn

#49. According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

Josh Lieb

#50. I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

Gabe Newell

#51. Be sure to find a way every day to rock your own world and to pat yourself on the back, the front, or whatever distance you can reach. In all probability 'nobody does it better' and self-appreciation is a serious key to self-success. Kathy Golden

Kathy Golden

#52. Because they start with us, reach up to touch God, and still come back down to be with us. The treasure isn't at the end of the rainbow; it's that the rainbow cared enough to come back.

Katie Kennedy

#53. And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Alan Paton

#54. I have learned that it is a high spiritual truth, that when you reach to touch something beautiful, something beautiful reaches back and touches you;

Bryant McGill

#55. You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#56. Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

Susan Jane Gilman

#57. May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Albert Einstein

#58. How far back into childhood do our memories reach?

Sigmund Freud

#59. The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.

Marvin Ammori

#60. Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.

Padma Lakshmi

#61. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

Og Mandino

#62. Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

Gina Barreca

#63. My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down.

Michael Strahan

#64. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

George R R Martin

#65. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Maya Angelou

#66. Maybe God is the ultimate bully who teases us with life, then pulls it out of reach. Maybe there's nothing I can do but let life curl up and disappear like an old photograph.
Or maybe I can get it back. Maybe imagination gets it back. Perhaps play lets it breath again.

Alan Alda

#67. We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of communicating it. We are tending to still use the style from 50 years back that doesn't match who we are trying to reach today.

Rick Warren

#68. Instead of thinking deeply, or letting an idea simmer in the back of the mind, our instinct now is to reach for the nearest sound bite.

Carl Honore

#69. Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Arthur Miller

#70. In the search for truth human beings take two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them forward. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the truth at last.

Anton Chekhov

#71. Perhaps the reason memoirs are so often written by the young these days is that, once you reach a certain age, only fiction might allow you to truly make your way back to childhood.

Tom Engelhardt

#72. As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

Annalee Newitz

#73. The desire to touch her, to kiss her would end up with her walking away and him hurting again. So why the hell did he reach up and stroke her cheek with the back of his knuckle?

Leah Braemel

#74. I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

Richard Bach

#75. Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

Nicole Mones

#76. When you think something's out of reach, you back off and say you didn't want it anyway.

D.J. MacHale

#77. The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Rosemary Wells

#78. It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

Zig Ziglar

#79. Your ability is a gift, but it isn't enough to reach your goal. You must be persistent and diligent on your way, and whatever happens, you must always get back up on your feet.

B.B. Vayk

#80. By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

Christopher Reeve

#81. When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.

Jack Goldstein

#82. It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

Adrian Peterson

#83. And though I couldn't explain why, I undid my jacket and made sure I could reach my Beretta tucked into my belt at the back. It was that sort of place, that sort of night.

Terry Hayes

#84. Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Edwidge Danticat

#85. When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion.
We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

Witi Ihimaera

#86. Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

Malcolm X

#87. When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

Edith Piaf

#88. Will you reach heaven?
Brighter now,
white and beautiful.
You hurry in that direction.
Your eyes acquiesce,
and open to discover ...
you're back in hell, after all.

Ellen Hopkins

#89. Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Terry Eagleton

#90. I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.

Lamar Odom

#91. I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border.

James Dickey

#92. They exit one by one, or sometimes two by two. You scatter pieces of them on the snow in the woods and then run away as fast as you can, and then you turn and run back towards them, once they're beyond your reach.

Chandler Burr

#93. I got to thinking - when it was too late - you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

Cynthia Voigt

#94. When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#95. Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Andy Goldsworthy

#96. Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!
But time goes on, and will, unheeding,
Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn,
And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

Conrad Aiken

#97. There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.

John Irving

#98. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

Colum McCann

#99. Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

Jeff Kinney

#100. Why can't you just look into my mind and see what happened for yourself? You erased
my memory, can't you bring it back?
-I buried it beyond even my reach, so as to be sure it stayed forgotten.
Great. If Mega-Master Mencheres couldn't pry it out, then it must really be lost.

Jeaniene Frost