Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Robert E. Lee

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

Richard Baxter

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Umberto Eco

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

William Jennings Bryan

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

William Saroyan

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

William J. Clinton

No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.

Richard Corliss

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Robin Hobb

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Robert Mugabe

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Warren Buffett

I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

Salman Rushdie

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Roddy McDowall

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'

William Faulkner

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

Willard Scott

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

Tyga

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

William Least Heat-Moon

No yesterdays on the road.

Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Steve Zahn

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

Robert Jordan

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

Willie Nelson

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.

William O. Douglas

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

If you look at today, you've got to say yesterday was a sucker's rally.

Mordecai Richler

I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.

Marcel Proust

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

Jose Saramago

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

Jorge Luis Borges

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

Khalil Gibran

Follow only beauty and obey only love.

Jonathan Swift

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.