A Quote by Frances Mayes

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

Frances Mayes

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Backward Dragging Forward Keeps Me Memory Pushes Travel

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Frances Mayes
American - Novelist
Born: April 4, 1940

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Grandma Moses

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Lykke Li

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

David O. Selznick

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Bob Saget

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

J. I. Packer

Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

Ben Affleck

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

You can imagine how hard it is, but there's always a force that pushes me forward to do all I can!

Sun Yang

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

Ira Glass

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

A lot of my peers, be seniors or juniors, they'll text me or they'll call me and they'll say, 'Thank you for doing the music that you do because it pushes the genre forward in different ways.' It's a very rewarding thing to hear.