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Quotes About Back

That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God
~ John Updike
Without death, now, there couldn't be life. Health," he said with a little smiling roll of his lower lip, "is an animal condition. Now most of our ill-health comes from two places-the brain and the back. We made two mistakes; one was to stand up and the other was to start thinking. It strains the spine and the nerves. It makes tension and the brain makes the body.
~ John Updike
An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!
~ Unknown
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
~ L. Neil Smith
And when they saw the somewhat extravagant tattoo I have on my back — a half of a SEAL Trident (Morgan has the other half) — they damn near fainted.
~ Marcus Luttrell
That fall in San Francisco, Lorenzo worked for a wholesaler until he was forced to quit after hurting his back lifting goods. When Dr. Henry Hewit moved back east to be with his family in Connecticut, Lorenzo was orphaned all over again at sixteen.
~ Margot Mifflin
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.
~ Dave Barry
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.
~ Dave Beard
There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.
~ Steven Wright
The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
~ Ricky Williams
Let me get you all some punch, " I said."You're leaving us?" said Isabel, sounding panicky."I'll be right back, " I promised. "If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.
~ Unknown
Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.
~ Chris Vonada
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
~ Tommy Cooper
I'll turn my back and walk away, away from the pain. Scream it loud, drown it out by the sound of the rain. Listen up, I've had enough all this waiting. I need you more right now than I ever did!
~ Unknown
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
~ Martha Reeves
Just a regular projectile, not an explosive one, so most of my back was still there. I just didn't feel like walking around leaking in front of humans right now.
~ Martha Wells
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.
~ Mary Doria Russell
My back is dirtier than a potato?
~ Mary E. Pearson
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
~ Mason Cooley
Most athletes with lower back pain or hamstring strains have poor hip or lumbo-pelvic mechanics and as a result must extend or flex the lumbar spine to make up for movement unavailable through the hip.
~ Unknown
The questions piled up like the firewood he would stack just outside the back door back home. 
~ Unknown
Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.
~ Michael Foley
We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.
~ Michael Herr