Yesterday Quotes

"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow"

Washington Irving, Writer

"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

"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war"

George W. Bush, President

"I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'"

Britney Spears, Musician

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

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

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"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

"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

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

Hank Stram, Athlete

"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

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

Loretta Young, Actress

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

Lou Holtz, Coach

"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

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday"

John Burroughs, Author

"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 went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?""

Jay Leno, Comedian

"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

"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"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

"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

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow"

William Osler, Scientist

"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

"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"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

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