Yesterday Quotes

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

"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation"

Alcee Hastings, 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

"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"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

"Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling"

George Murray, Poet

"We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle"

Allan Carr, Director

"I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever"

Horace Mann, Educator

"We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow"

Fulton Oursler

"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

"It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today"

James Howell, Writer

"There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday"

Otis Blackwell, Musician

"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know"

Kate Seredy, Writer

"Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"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

"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change"

Robert Hewison, Historian

"She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!"

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

"Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor"

Anthony Edwards, Actor

"Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday"

Amy Weber, Actress

"And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!"

Jan Brewer, Politician

"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns"

John D. Long, Politician

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