Quotes and Sayings about Yesterday
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, Man, Tomorrow, Waiting, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: God, People, Americans, Will, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Truth, Yesterday)
"Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them."
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: Will, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Present, Yesterday)
"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Love, Yesterday)
"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
(Related: Night, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Nothing, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Government, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Holiday, Meeting, Yesterday)
"My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!"
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Women, Thought, Yesterday)
"I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to."
- Conrad Black
(Related: Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Talk, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Job, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Hope, Glory, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Today, Want, Yesterday)
"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Growth, Profit, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Fight, Force, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Time, Ideas, Body, Day, Mind, Today, Yesterday)
"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
- John Burroughs
(Related: Yesterday)
"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
(Related: War, Country, Terror, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Film, Horror, Meeting, Now, Pretty, Reading, Right, Television, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: President, Yesterday)
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Cause, Holiday, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Battle, First, Meeting, Yesterday)
"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Yesterday)
"Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions."
- Albert Claude
(Related: Beliefs, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Time, War, People, American, Direction, Iraq, President, Result, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Drinking, Eating, Kids, Police, Yesterday)
"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Fancy, Listening, London, Open, Summer, Thrushes)
"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
- Ezra Cornell
(Related: Trees, Want, Yesterday)
"When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Fashion, Ignorance, Style, Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Money, Thought, Yesterday)
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
- Bernadette Devlin
(Related: Struggle, Today, Yesterday)
"The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday."
- Leonardo DiCaprio
(Related: Acting, Job, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Performance, Free speech, May, Today, Yesterday)
"Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Memory, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: End, Now, Present, Tomorrow, Will, Years, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Hope, Flying, Want, Yesterday)
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Hope, Questioning, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Night, Nothing, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."
- Bob Feller
(Related: Life, Success, Opportunity, Baseball, Day, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Key, Right, Songs, Voice, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Yesterday)
"Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."
- Aulus Persius Flaccus
"Yesterday I was qualified, the Lord knows how, as your depute."
- Duncan Forbes
(Related: Yesterday)
"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"
- Garrett Fort
(Related: Fact, Superstition, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today."
- Brendan Francis
(Related: Today)
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Day, Deep, Judgment, May, Order, Today, Yesterday)
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
- Anna Freud
(Related: Space, Trees, Yesterday)
"Today is yesterday's pupil."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Technology, Needs, Problems, Today, Wishes, Yesterday)
"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Myths, Needs, Today, Yesterday)
"I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine."
- Gordon Getty
(Related: Music, Composers, Newspapers, Yesterday)
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Love, Beauty, Truth, Kings, Today, Yesterday)
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Dream, Memory, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder."
- William Golding
(Related: Faces)
"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."
- Mikhail Gorbachev
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Opportunity, Goal, Countries, Fish, Mind, Play, Saying, Want, Yesterday)
"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
- Curt Gowdy
(Related: Performance, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Fact, Problems, Profession, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Education, People, Country, Hunger, Mortality, Nation, Public, Yesterday)
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Years, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Change, Losing, Past, Risk, Today, Yesterday)
"It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Now, Right, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Habit, Day, Procrastination, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Time, Money, Hollywood, Yesterday)
"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
- Lou Holtz
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Art, Genius, People, Idea, Attention, Thinking, Yesterday)
"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
- Horace
(Related: Body, Excess, Mind, Yesterday)
"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today."
- James Howell
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: State, Yesterday)
"You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy."
- Brit Hume
(Related: Time, Thought, First, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Love, Sense, Tomorrow, World, Yesterday)
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."
- David Icke
(Related: Oak, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Addiction, America, Appearance, Connection, Global warming, Oil, President, Public, Talking, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Family, Time, War, History, Thought, England, Now, Years, Yesterday)
"The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history."
- Henry M. Jackson
(Related: History, Development, Decision, President, Yesterday)
"Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday."
- Jerry B. Jenkins
(Related: Funny, Today, Yesterday)
"I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays."
- Allen Johnson
(Related: Now)
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
- Henry Arthur Jones
(Related: Universe, Yesterday)
"Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues."
- Jon Bon Jovi
(Related: Time, Waste, Yesterday)
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
- James Joyce
(Related: Day, Future, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine."
- Junius
(Related: Doctrine, Fact, Law, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Wife, Hope, Misfortune, Sleep, Yesterday)
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."
- Bil Keane
(Related: Future, Past, Present, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Women, Talent, Performance, Dress, Exercise, Yesterday)
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
- Charles Kettering
(Related: Time, Thinking, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today."
- Mackenzie King
(Related: Promises, Taxes, Today, Yesterday)
"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Rain, World, Yesterday)
"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played."
- Leo Kottke
(Related: Day, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Success, Challenge, Order, Yesterday)
"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Vision, Limits, Memories, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Gay, Mind, Now, Paris, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Men, Day, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Islands, Night, Rain, Yesterday)
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Man, Today, Yesterday)
"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."
- Charles Lindbergh
(Related: Dreams, Future, Living, Yesterday)
"I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns."
- John D. Long
(Related: Men, War, Navy, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Reward, Sunset, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Funny, Help, Yesterday)
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Art, Procrastination, Yesterday)
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Power, Day, Events, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday."
- Roddy McDowall
(Related: Life, Trying, Yesterday)
"Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
- Phyllis McGinley
(Related: Success, Cause, Nothing, Yesterday)
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Age, Anxiety, Job, Result, Today, Tools, Trying, Yesterday)
"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Children, Now, Schools, Yesterday)
"If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today."
- Olin Miller
(Related: Thought, Today, Yesterday)
"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Fear, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines."
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Church, Care, Today, Yesterday)
"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Faith, Today, Yesterday)
"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
- William Least Heat Moon
(Related: People, Past, Right, Road, Traveling)
"When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
- William Least Heat Moon
(Related: People, Past, Right, Road)
"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
(Related: Work, Wife, Day, Talk, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Son, Leading, Road, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Myth, Prophecy, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Nothing, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
- Miyamoto Musashi
(Related: Men, Strategy, Victory, Spirit, Study, Today, Tomorrow, Years, Yesterday)
"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."
- John Newton
(Related: Burden, Day, Today, Will, Yesterday)
"I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past."
- Juice Newton
(Related: Past, Yesterday)
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
- Leslie Nielsen
(Related: Golf, Yesterday)
"Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'"
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Time, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Man, Police, Trouble, Yesterday)
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
- Babatunde Olatunji
(Related: History, Mystery, Present, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Want, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Age, Wisdom, Foolishness, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Sister, Day, Lady, Prison, Weeping, Yesterday)
"We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."
- Fulton Oursler
(Related: Fear, Regret, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Government, Hope, Strength, Support, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
- Robert B. Parker
(Related: Work, Public, Reading)
"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
(Related: Living, Today, Yesterday)
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."
- Kenneth L. Pike
(Related: Practicality, Theory, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Illusion, Reality, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Illusion, May, Reality, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress."
- John Podesta
(Related: Faith, People, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Success, Arrogance, Innovation, Learning, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Saying, Today, Words, Wrong, Yesterday)
"I try to be the same person I was yesterday."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Time, Heart, Night, Today, Yesterday)
"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Disease, Night, Yesterday)
"When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is."
- Dan Quayle
(Related: President, Public, Vice, Yesterday)
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not."
- Della Reese
(Related: May, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: God, History, Mystery, Present, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Yesterday)
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow."
- Romain Rolland
(Related: Faith, Skepticism, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: America, December, states, United, Will, Yesterday)
"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Politics, Lie, Today, Yesterday)
"It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this."
- Brandon Routh
(Related: Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Thought, First, Sense, Yesterday)
"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."
- R. W. Tiny Rowland
(Related: Europe, states, Tomorrow, United, World, Yesterday)
"I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday."
- Darrell Royal
(Related: Mistakes, Today, Yesterday)
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."
- Babe Ruth
(Related: Home, Games, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: War, Terrorism, Yesterday)
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Forget, Future, Now, Past, Post, Tomorrow)
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: Dream, Hope, Reality, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: Accomplishments, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Hope, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?"
- Willard Scott
(Related: Yesterday)
"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know."
- Kate Seredy
(Related: Dance, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: God, Day, Famous, First, Reason, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Day, Independence, Man, Morals, Woman, Yesterday)
"Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Man, May, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Borrowing, Interest, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Kiss, Example, Fans, Meeting, Yesterday)
"If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system."
- John Shelby Spong
(Related: People, Hope, Future, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain."
- Jon Stewart
(Related: President, Rest, Spain, World, Yesterday)
"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note."
- Hank Stram
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday."
- Sherry Stringfield
(Related: Love, Sense, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Age, Children, First, Woman, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Love, Debt, Devotion, Public, Today, Will, Yesterday)
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
- Jonathan Swift
(Related: Man, Saying, Today, Wrong, Yesterday)
"Each day is the scholar of yesterday."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Day, Yesterday)
"If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Time, Tax, Jobs, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Time, First, Name, Yesterday)
"The best time is always yesterday."
- Tatyana Tolstaya
(Related: Time, Yesterday)
"I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Friends, Oil, Production, Want, World, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Creativity, Fun, Now, Production, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Food, Country, Will, Yesterday)
"Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow."
- Neale Donald Walsch
(Related: Dream, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Music, Old, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Open, Today, Tomorrow, Will, World, Yesterday)
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
- Ethel Waters
(Related: Joy)
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne
(Related: Life, Midnight, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne
(Related: Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Actors, Information, Yesterday)
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
- H. G. Wells
(Related: Today, Yesterday)
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"
- William Allen White
(Related: Love, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Funny, Now, Questions, Yesterday)
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
- Thornton Wilder
(Related: Love, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Truth, People, Feelings, First, Radical, Worry, Yesterday)
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people."
- Walter Winchell
(Related: People, Today, Yesterday)
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
(Related: Hope, Lies, Present, Shadow, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Power, People, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Destruction, Yesterday)
"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Living, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him."
- Henny Youngman
(Related: Horses)