Yesterday Quotes

"Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability"

"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"I try to be the same person I was yesterday"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note"

Hank Stram, Athlete

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide"

Bill Owens, Politician

"One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine"

Junius

"Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"

William Allen White, Editor

"I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow"

Loretta Young, Actress

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday"

Roddy McDowall, Actor

"I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too"

Sophie Marceau, Actress

"It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow"

Frank Dane

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