Era Quotes

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

Old, Afraid, Leave

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
Lawrence Lessig

Time, Character, Ideas

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle

Best, Baseball, Him

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

Games, City, Modern

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
Brent Scowcroft

Trying, Country, Mindset

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.
Freda Adler

Knowledge, Find, Another

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
Shakira

Love, History, Creativity

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.
Bode Miller

Music, Mom, Nice

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 after-life.
Arianna Huffington

Creativity, Result, Obsession

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
James Levine

Treasure, Orchestra, Chest

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.
Armstrong Williams

History, War, End

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
Tim McGraw

Work, Best, Everything

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.
Mary Lou Retton

Success, Won, Financial

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Baz Luhrmann

Peace, Great, War

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

Women, Again, Against

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

Love, Peace, Consider

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
Richard M. Daley

Life, Dad, Father

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
Hugh Sidey

Words, Risk, Ideas

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

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

Changed, China, Stepping

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

Today, Same, Between

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
Jon Hamm

Guys, Teenagers, Teenager

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.
Rafael Palmeiro

Great, Best, History

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Malcolm Gladwell

Great, Jobs, Forgotten

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
Graeme Murphy

Conscious, Golden, Moved

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
Ivan Lendl

Game, Fair, Players

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
Jeffrey Sachs

Money, Great, Democracy

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

Tell, American, Far

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

Age, Woman, Jeans

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
Nicholson Baker

Music, Time, Poetry

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