Eras Quotations

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

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.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

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

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

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

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

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.

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

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

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.

I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

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.

I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

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.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

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

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

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

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again

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

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.

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

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

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.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

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

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.