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Quotes About Yesterday

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.
~ Andy Kim
Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.
~ John C. Maxwell
There's a shadow hanging over me,Oh yesterday came suddenly.
~ Anonymous
...a little child, born yesterday, A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed...
~ Anonymous
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
~ Anonymous
Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday.
~ Anthony Hopkins
The past is no farther away than your pillow.
~ Frank Herbert
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
~ Romain Rolland
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday, sweet and beloved, between its leaves.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose
~ Lyndon Johnson
There was yesterday, which was gone, which was only a dream. There was tomorrow, which was a vision not unlike today. When was always Now, for there was little looking either backward or forward in this young world. If Now was good, yesterday, though a pleasurable dream, was not necessary. If Now was good, tomorrow would likely continue to be so.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success.
~ Candy bustillo
Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Yesterday should be the teacher of today.
~ Publilius Syrus
I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.
~ Andre Gide
Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Striking from the CalendarUnborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Ah, my Belovèd, fill the Cup that clearsToday of past Regrets and future Fears:Tomorrow!—Why, Tomorrow I may beMyself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
~ Edward Fitzgerald
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
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
~ Edwin C. Bliss
Today carries two life histories; the written one as Yesterday and the unwritten as Tomorrow; both travel continuously.
~ Ehsan Sehgal