Era Quotes

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

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

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

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

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

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.

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.

I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

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

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

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

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

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.

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'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.

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

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

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?