President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
Charles L. Allen

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
Raul Julia

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
Jamal Lewis

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.
Jim Cramer

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
Tina Yothers

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.
John Astin

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Kristin Scott Thomas

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
Marcus Allen

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
Paul Gillmor

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
Jerry Jones

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
Manmohan Singh

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
Malcolm Wilson

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
Robert Redford

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
John Cheever

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
Roger Babson