Quotes and Sayings About Yesterday
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
-- Ace Frehley -
Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.
-- Achille Mbembe -
I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
-- Adam Wilde -
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
-- Adele Faber -
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
-- Adrian Rogers -
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come
-- Alan Coren -
Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.
-- Alan Shearer -
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
-- Albert Camus -
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
-- Albert Claude -
It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
-- Alexander Pope -
To-day is always different from yesterday.
-- Alexander Smith -
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
-- Alexandra Ripley -
I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!
-- Alfred Brendel -
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
-- Alice Morse Earle -
I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.
-- Allyson Felix -
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 -
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
-- Alvin Toffler -
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today
-- Amit Abraham -
Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.
-- Amy Grant