Yesterday Quotes

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

"Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago"

Peter Warlock, Composer

"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday"

Sherry Stringfield, Actress

"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them"

Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity

"I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work"

James P. Moran, Politician

"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to"

Conrad Black, Businessman

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present"

Babatunde Olatunji, Musician

"Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow"

Romain Rolland, Novelist

"Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it"

Shania Twain, Musician

"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday"

Darrell Royal, Coach

"When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man"

Norma Shearer, Actress

"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday"

Renata Adler, Journalist

"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off"

Tommy Cooper, Comedian

"I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past"

Juice Newton, Musician

"When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place"

John Buford, Soldier

"But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton"

David Letterman, Comedian

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not"

Della Reese, Musician

"What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island"

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer

"Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock"

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer

"The best time is always yesterday"

Tatyana Tolstaya, Writer

"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests"

Charles Lindbergh, Aviator

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