Yesteryear Quotes

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

Francois Villon

Snow

'Ballade des dames du temps jadis' from 'Le Grand Testament' (1461) (translation by D. G. Rossetti)

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where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

Joseph Heller

Snowden

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Russell Baker

People, Car, Modern Life

Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

Jon Meacham

Past, Greatness, History

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I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Beryl Markham

Moving On, Distance, Believe

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I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Charles R. Swindoll

Delight, Today, Convenience

Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Marriage Workbook: From Surviving to Thriving”, p.6, Thomas Nelson

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Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

Leo Buscaglia

Love Life, Love Is, Expression

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Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

Jonah Goldberg

Would Be, Tactics, Unions

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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.

Studs Terkel

Hero, Responsibility, Thinking

Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.337, The New Press

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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. I don't know that Jay Gould or John D. Rockefeller ever killed anyone. The State has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.

Joseph Sobran

Real, People, John D Rockefeller

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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

Tom McCall

Hero, Responsibility, Sky

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I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities, and you really have an America that is back on its feet, a comfortable nation to live in again. I really think we're gonna have to reassess what constitutes a hero.

Tom McCall

Hero, Responsibility, Thinking

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So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

Kathy Freston

Grandma, May, Trouble

"Could Chicken Be Contributing to the Obesity Epidemic?" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity.

Walter E. Williams

Art, Character, Race

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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Russell Baker

Wine, Nursing, White

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Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Men, Evil, Judging

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I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

Thomas F. Wilson

Artist, Icons, Want

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

John Podhoretz

Fashion, Block, Snow

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