“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
Henry Summers (1911–2005) British civil servant
"A Spell for Midnight"
“Yesterday's monomaniac is tomorrow's messiah…”
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967)
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“It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“I am in yesterday, today. And tomorrow? In tomorrow I was.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
Voces (1943)
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
President Clinton's speech at the 200th anniversary of the University of North Carolina.
This quote was later used as a sample by electronic duo Cosmic Gate in their track "Tomorrow"
2000s
“Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: With the flag to Pretoria (p. 738)
“Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.”
Hunter S. Thompson book The Curse of Lono
Source: The Curse of Lono