Era Quotes

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.