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A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday -- Dionne Warwick
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, -- Wendy Lesser
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new. -- John Varvatos
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. -- Steve Earle
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. -- Van Morrison
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. -- Michael Pollan
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. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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? -- David McCullough
I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. 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. -- Steve Earle
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. -- Lysa TerKeurst
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. -- Elizabeth Kostova
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. -- Jane Roberts
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. -- Steven Weinberg
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. -- Colin Powell
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. -- Andy Goldsworthy
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. -- Kirk Douglas
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. -- Franz Kafka
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
Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back. -- Matt Stone
It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach. -- Robert Stack
Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people. -- Joe Miller
If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. -- Andy Kaufman
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. -- Ben Nicholson
You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down. -- Miranda Lambert
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. -- Robert Morgan
If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back. -- Jonny Lee Miller
The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that. -- Charles H. Percy
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
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. -- E. O. Wilson
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States. -- Thomas Woods
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
Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
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
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. -- Hermann Hesse
By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine. -- Christopher Reeve
My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back. -- Eddie Griffin
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. -- Raquel Cepeda
Fear of living onNatives getting restless nowMutiny in the airGot some death to doMirror stares back hardKill, it's such a friendly wordSeems the only wayFor reaching out again. --

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