Benjamin Button: For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit... Start whenever you want... You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life that you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Benjamin Button: Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.
Benjamin Button: Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Mrs. Maple: Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
Benjamin Button: You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went; you can swear and curse the fates - but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
Benjamin: She needs a father, not a playmate.
Daisy: Have you slept with a woman before?
Benjamin Button: Never on a Sunday.
Queenie: Poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.
Daisy: Will you sleep with me?
Benjamin Button: Absolutely.
Daisy: I promise you, I'll never lose myself to self-pity again.
Benjamin Button: And I think, right there and then, she realized none of us is perfect forever.
Mr. Daws: Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?
Benjamin Button: I wanna remember us just as we are now.
Daisy: Goodnight Benjamin.
Benjamin Button: Goodnight Daisy.
Benjamin Button: I was thinking how nothing lasts, and what a shame that is.
Daisy: Some things last.
Benjamin Button: What if I told you that instead of gettin' older, I was gettin' younger than everybody else?
Daisy: We all end up in diapers.
Benjamin Button: You never know what's coming for you.
Daisy: Would you still love me if I were old and saggy?
Benjamin Button: Would you still love ME if I were young and had acne? When I'm afraid of what's under the stairs? Or if I end up wetting the bed?
Benjamin Button: It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.
Daisy: You're so young.
Benjamin Button: Only on the outside.
Answer: It can mean 2 things. 1) It can mean that they were wishing they can turn back time that's why the clock was going counterclockwise. 2) It can also mean that they were talking about Benjamin because the clock was going counterclockwise.