Top 222 Yesterday Quotes

The president’s decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb… has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday’s challenges but to tomorrow’s challenges.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

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.

For me, it’s mostly about having stuff on the street. You’re walking down the street, you do it every day, and suddenly there’s something that wasn’t there yesterday: something bright and cheerful and different. It might stay there for a year; maybe it will disappear.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

And I’m auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I’m reading right now for a horror film, and I’m meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.

Myself, I always tell people that if you’re not getting better you’re only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform.

If we want a world that is truly sustainable, we have to realize that something old can also be perfect. Otherwise, we’ll just throw away our yesterday.

It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I’d have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we’re going to see magically an economic recovery.

As a person, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, ‘Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it’s going to be a lot different.’

Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it’s always yesterday.

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

It was Jack’s and Tom Watson’s day yesterday. But today, it’s another day.

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o’clock.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

I’m confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.

I had a horrendous photo for my hundred yesterday, so I needed to make sure I wasn’t going too nuts to make sure the 200 photo was better.

It doesn’t have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it’s all right now.

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

The politician’s promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

In football you tend to drift away and on to the next job; you bump into someone after two or three years and it’s the same as seeing them yesterday.

I am stronger than yesterday and working harder than yesterday but don’t know what will happen tomorrow.

Look, not embracing the ‘Today’ show is soooo yesterday.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity – being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday – there’s a part of me that really doesn’t grasp that it’s me.

Yesterday I was walking past cows in my village and today I am at Barca, coaching the best players in the world. This is the pinnacle for me.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were – Tomorrow you shall not be less.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

If you realize you aren’t so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you’re wiser today.

The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

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

Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.

I don’t want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don’t want to write the song I’m going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I’m writing now.

I’m the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

Many Ethiopians see yesterday. I see tomorrow.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I’ve idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in because, when you improvise, you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow – you’re right in the moment.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

You can’t just sort of come with, say, ‘Yesterday,’ or ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ and it be in the wrong place in the wrong show, and expect the song to work theatrically.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven’s fifth, because I love that.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I’m going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam’s airport.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song ‘Yesterday.’ Listen to the lyrics.