“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”
Robert F. Young book The Dandelion Girl
Source: The Dandelion Girl
Quoted in National Observer (Silver Spring, Maryland, March 1, 1965).
Other writings
“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”
Robert F. Young book The Dandelion Girl
Source: The Dandelion Girl
Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917) Founder of Osteopathic Medicine
Still. A. T., Journal of Osteopathy, p. 127. https://www.atsu.edu/museum/subscription/pdfs/JournalofOsteopathyVol5No31898August.pdf/.
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Elena Ferrante book My Brilliant Friend
Source: My Brilliant Friend
“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
“The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.”
Helmut Kohl (1930–2017) former chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) and then the united Germany (1990-1998)
Discussion with his predecessor Helmut Schmidt in 'Die Zeit' (1998)
“Yesterday’s seer is today’s bore.”
Stephen Jay Gould book An Urchin in the Storm
"The Quack Detector", p. 244
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)