Quotes about the past

I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way.

John Lennon

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

Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Steve Jobs

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

I said, ‘You missed practice yesterday didn’t you?’ The player replied, ‘No coach, not a bit.’

Vince Lombardi

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

Erich Fromm

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

George Orwell

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Giacomo Casanova

If you say to people that there’s less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it’s the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

Bill Gates

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

Jim Ryun