Reaching Back Quotes:

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

source: Source: belmontvision.com

topic: Time On Earth, Limits, Clock, Reaching Back, Biological Clock

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

source: "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

topic: Past, Pushing Forward, Reaching, Reaching Back

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

source: The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

topic: Roots, People, Feelings, Gut Feelings, Reaching Back

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

source: Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.98, Penguin

topic: Land, People, Social, Reaching Back

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

topic: Fashion, Teaching, Past, Reorganization, Learned Behavior

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

topic: Philosophy, Moving, Different, Reaching Back, Old And New

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

topic: Country, Blessed, Blessing, Lifting Up, Playing Fields

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

- Wendy Lesser

source: Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.6, Macmillan

topic: Reading, Literature, Way, Reaching Back, Reading Literature

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

topic: Yesterday, Tomorrow, Moments, Living Fully, Reaching Back

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

- Samuel Eliot Morison

topic: America, Independence, Revolution, Preamble, Declaration Of Independence

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.

- George W. Bush

source: "Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

topic: Struggle, Men, Israel, Exodus, Reaching Back

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

- Dionne Warwick

source: Song: I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again

topic: Yesterday, Fool, Tomorrow, Reaching Back

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

source: "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Standing Up in the Milky Way". Documentary, March 9, 2014.

topic: Teacher, Stars, Community, Reaching Back

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

topic: Life, Believe, Special, Reaching Back

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

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

topic: People, Soul, Growing, Reaching Back

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

source: Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

topic: Facts, Sometimes, Reaching, Claws, Reaching Back