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How to use the word yesterdays in a Sentence?

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We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

– Ardis Whitman

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

Our city is experiencing a lot of raw emotion right now, i know that is especially true for our Somali community, who has lost a young man. Gun violence has gripped our city and today is no exception, but the circumstances and the details of what transpired last night, does not negate the tragedy of yesterdays death.

– Jacob Frey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Mind acts like a magnet...It gets stuck to the past. It gets sucked into our yesterdays, and our Joy and Peace does not last.

– AiR Atman in Ravi

added by AIR
4 years ago

When today is no different than yesterday and you haven’t taken any action to improve your tomorrow, then all your days continue to be yesterdays

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

Shameless tactics & dirty political plays defined yesterdays #iacaucus, there is no place for this kind of behavior.

– Ben Carson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

– Carl Sandburg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments.

– Dale Carnegie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

– Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

– Gloria Gaither

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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