John Podhoretz

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.

American Writer

Arlie Russell Hochschild

We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.

American Educator

Jerry West

We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

American Businessman

Jon Meacham

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.

American Editor

Kathy Freston

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.

American Author

Thomas F. Wilson

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.

American Actor

Charles R. Swindoll

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.

American Clergyman

Shamna Kasim

I was approached for the remake of Maniyara,' the yesteryear film that starred actors Mammootty and Seema in the lead.

Indian Actress

Art Modell

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Cuban Musician

Used to refer to a nonspecific past, not strictly the previous year.

Period Reference

Often used to romanticize or idealize the past, especially in comparison to the present.

Romanticizing Past

Gives a tone of old-fashionedness or antiquity to the sentence.

Archaic Tone

Refers to a distant, rather than recent, past, especially in literature or history.

Historical Past

May reference a significant past period in a person’s life or a collective cultural experience.

Personal Context

Utilized to emphasize a comparison between the present and a presumably better or simpler past.

Nostalgic Emphasis

 announced in the competition can you imagine in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear getting anything done in a four-month period of time you can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time let alone generate real palpable innovations that improve people's lives

Demand a more...

 that pull us to one person rather than another. So, I will close with this. These are my older people. Faulkner said, "The past is not dead, it's not even past." Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human brain.

Yesteryear