YESTERDAY QUOTES
quotations about yesterday
Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
BEATLES
"Yesterday", Help!
Ten thousand yesterdays are not worth one today.
S. WOODWORTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Yesterday should be the teacher of today.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.
HUGH HEFNER
interview, Nightline, Jul. 22, 2010
I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.
JOHN LENNON
interview, Playboy, Jan. 1981
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice in Wonderland
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
Then gay youth was mine
And truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Forsooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
Of yesterdays
ELLA FITZGERALD
"Yesterdays"
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
JOAN RIVERS
attributed, The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life
Poor cozened cozener, that she, and that thou,
Which did begin to love, are neither now;
You are both fluid, changed since yesterday;
Next day repairs, (but ill) last day's decay.
JOHN DONNE
"Of the Progress of the Soul", The Complete English Poems
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
CHANG-RAE LEE
On Such a Full Sea
Yesterday's a flower the wind blows away.
LOUISE DRISCOLL
"I Go But My Heart Stays"
The strength you have today comes from your yesterday's pain; your success today comes from yesterday's mistakes.
FRANK ADOFOLI
"Lifestyle: The woman every man wants to marry", Ghana Web, October 4, 2016
Yesterday is gone, the future isn't here. The present is all that we have; make the most of it.
ATALANTA BEAUMONT
Handy Hints for Humans
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
KHALIL GIBRAN
The Prophet
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone.
THE ROLLING STONES
"Ruby Tuesday"
then downward
tumbles yesterday
as in a well
fall's yesterday's water,
into the cistern
PABLO NERUDA
"Past", Selected Poems
Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.
PHILIP MOELLER
The Roadhouse in Arden
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
ANONYMOUS
Swift flies our time on pinions fleet,
Like vapours on the breeze;
The transient bliss we now call sweet,
The passing moments seize.
The gilded joy, the present hour,
Soon wing themselves away;
Departing like the fading flower
That pleas'd us Yesterday.
WILLIAM MUIR
"The Flower of Yesterday", Poems on Various Subjects