quotations about yesterday
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow,
And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
JOHN DONNE
"An Anatomy of the World", The Complete English Poems
Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and was named Today; now I am Yesterday, and carry upon me the eternal stain of your embrace.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday", Four Minute Essays
What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you ...
JAMES A. MURPHY
The Waves of Life: Quotes and Daily Meditations
Don't let your yesterday ruin your today. Don't let your last loss beat you again.
ANONYMOUS
You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
All our yesterdays are here, the things we use and throw away, lost and found in spidery cocoons.
JONATHAN JONES
"Alice Anderson at the Wellcome Collection Review - a weird, wired world", The Guardian, July 17, 2015
Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll end up with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
ANONYMOUS
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery.
ANONYMOUS
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
PEGGY WALL
"King News", The Stokes News, February 21, 2017
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
ANONYMOUS
bumper sticker
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA
attributed, Summer of Yesterday
I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.
K. J. BISHOP
The Etched City
Tomorrows come unnoticed. Todays slip by unheeded. More and more you become a creature of Yesterdays.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday"
God is always in the process of restoring. Your yesterday isn't your today.
TYRONE GREEN
"There's a lot of love at Hearts Delight", Fauquier Times, February 16, 2017
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
MEDEIA SHARIF
Bestest. Ramadan. Ever.
There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.
ERIC SLOANE
postscript, American Yesterday
Yesterday comes too late.
T. WEAVER
attributed, Day's Collacon
And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
JASON MRAZ
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday", Yes!
When anybody asks me what time it is, I always say, "Yesterday, plus 24 hours."
JAROD KINTZ
This Book is Not for Sale
The tale of yesterday is told.
CHARLES EDWARD WELLER
Yesterday: A Chronicle of Early Life in the West