Best Reaching Back Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who have been blessed by the wealth of this country sharing that blessing by reaching down and reaching back and lifting up somebody in need. That's what America is all about. That's what being American is all about.”

Needs Has Beens Country America Wealth Fields Blessing Down And Blessed Reaching Lifting Playing Fields Sidelines Lifting Up Reaching Back

Author:Colin Powell

“Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.”

Different Philosophy Moving Moving Forward Reaching Sensibility Old And New Reaching Back

Author:John Varvatos

“Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.”

Past Desire Belief Teaching Fashion Behavior Tricks Behave Reaching Nerves Allowing Definite Reorganization Learned Behavior Reaching Back

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.”

People Social Land Reaching Chemicals Ecological Reaching Back

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.”

I Can Hard Past Reaching Pushing Leap Reaching Back Pushing Forward

Author:Steve Earle

“Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?”

Humans Whole Earth Limits Available Clock Realms Reaching Human Experience Time On Earth Biological Clock Reaching Back

Author:David McCullough

“I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.”

People Reason Feelings Roots Reason Why Reaching Guts Why Not Gut Feelings Reaching Back

Author:Van Morrison

“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”

Sometimes Facts Reaching Historian I Have Learned Claws Reaching Back

Book:The Historian

Source: The Historian

“Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.”

People Soul Growing Evolution Edges Reaching Motivated Continuity Reaching Back

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.”

Life Firsts Believe Humans Life Is Universe Three Minutes Special Built Relation Accidents Chains Human Life Outcomes Reaching Reaching Back

Book:The first three minutes: a modern view of the origin of the universe

Source: The first three minutes: a modern view of the origin of the universe

“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.”

Mind Stars Community Teacher Generations Students Passing Passings Enterprise Reaching Torches Antiquity Cooperatives Teacher Student Reaching Back

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday”

Loses Fool Tomorrow Yesterday Reaching Reaching Back

Author:Dionne Warwick

“Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.”

“If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.”

“Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.”

Inspirational Moments Past Hope Lost Seeing Fronts Tomorrow Future Yesterday Live Life Reaching Live In The Moment Power Of Now Past Present Future Spiritual Gifts Living Fully Reaching Back

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.”

Way Different Reading Literature Bigger Reaching Reading Literature Reaching Back

Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books