“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”– Joan Rivers Related Quotes “My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.”– Russell Banks “I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.”– Queen Elizabeth II “The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.”– Harold Wilson