Era Quotes

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. (Arthur Miller)
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. View quote
Arianna Huffington
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. View quote
Rachel Carson
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation. View quote
Fatos Nano
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal. View quote
Ted Kulongoski
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons? View quote
Jane Goodall
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. View quote
Che Guevara
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. View quote
Albert Einstein
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things. (Nina Garcia)
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. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era. View quote
Fred Savage
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. View quote
Gavin Newsom
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. View quote
Harry Seidler
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era. View quote
Ivan Allen, Jr.
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. View quote
Lara St. John
We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. View quote
Zach Wamp
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. (Henry David Thoreau)
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.... When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception. View quote
Ted Kennedy
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality. View quote
Spider Robinson
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. View quote
Freda Adler