Turn Back The Clock Sayings

#1. If you can't turn back the clock, you move forward.

Dori Lavelle

#2. If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Elliott Abrams

#3. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Bonnie Prudden

#4. Time, my elusive friend, just for once can you turn back the clock,
Play back some of my lost moments and some events can you block?

K.S. Khatana

#5. We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

Ralph G. Neas

#6. Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

Pete Seeger

#7. AMA report both confirmed the public health benefits of legal abortion and foresaw the public health danger of legislative attempts to turn back the clock on American women.

David A. Grimes, M.D.

#8. No one can turn back the clock. Lie about your age if you want, but we're all going in the same direction.

Emma Woolf

#9. In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Michel Patini

#10. If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Mark Sheppard

#11. On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

Eric Heiden

#12. No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

Dannel Malloy

#13. Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around.

Larry McMurtry

#14. I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.

Birch Bayh

#15. Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Peter Shilton

#17. In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

Boris Johnson

#18. It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

Jonathan Franzen

#19. If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

Dan Halutz

#20. But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.

Ward Farnsworth

#21. Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.

Nicola Sturgeon

#22. By 1996 Nora Ephron was telling a graduating class at Wellesley, Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. ... Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you.

Rebecca Traister

#23. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Pete Seeger

#24. Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier.

Tom Waits

#25. We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Paul Kagame

#26. We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Lester Bowie

#27. I'd never choose to turn the clock back.

Geri Halliwell

#28. She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.

Lorrie Moore

#29. I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Pete Seeger

#30. I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it's ... there's good sides and there's bad sides ... I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

Lisa Vanderpump

#31. It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

Mel Gibson