Quotation Explorer - 'Backs'

Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea - Sarah Hymas
When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives. - Carew Papritz
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. - Mark Twain
A sudden intake of breath escaped her as soon as his lips touched the backs of her fingers. His rose birthmark tingled as if awakened. - Lia Davis
placid, adj.Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. - David Levithan
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future. - Unknown
Set backs and failures are the major motivations in life.Some are so painful that don't kill maybe that's why they make me strong, immune and a reason to fight with myself. - Himmilicious
I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house. - Linda Leigh Hargrove
Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs. - Molly Friedenfeld
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. - Jay McInerney
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld
I milked my typical persona as a gritty, intellectual sex-positive feminist that men loved to conquer, toss aside, and shove into their conquest collection in the dusty backs of their closets. - Maggie Young
Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars. - Laura Teresa Marquez
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King Jr.
The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real)She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you did wtih her, she comes backs again with love! - akshay Me
The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself :) - Mona Hanie
I was raised right I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. - Kathy Griffin
It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld
We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be. - H.G. Wells
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