And it cameto pass, when hemade mention of thearkof God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 4:18.

   It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in. The tribute of the current to the source.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'West-Running Brook'.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

-Gibbs,Wolcott
  Parody of  Time magazine's literary style.'Time† Fortune†Life†Luce', in the NewYorker, 28 Nov.

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Inside the Whale,'My Country Right or Left'.

You might as well fall flat onyour face as leanover toofar backward.

-Thurber,James Grover
  'The BearWho Let It Alone', in the NewYorker, 29 Apr.