Yesteryear quotes

  • But where are the snows of yesteryear?
    -- Francois Villon

    #Snow #Yesteryear

  • It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. I don't know that Jay Gould or John D. Rockefeller ever killed anyone. The State has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.
    -- Joseph Sobran

    #Real #People #Yesteryear

  • So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
    -- Kathy Freston

    #Grandma #May #Yesteryear

  • I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

  • Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  • It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television.

  • You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

  • One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

  • Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  • Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

  • You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

  • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

  • England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.