Quotes About Era

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.

When I was growing up, I was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan. The New England Patriots have a similar mold and plan to win a lot of games - reminiscent to that Bill Walsh era.

It was an era when history butted up against mythology

He is, we are told, a warrior from a bygone era, an old-fashioned knight for whom the virtues of chivalry and respect for the foe are indivisible from the passion for victory. In other words," says Kennedy Shaw, "you can't even hate the bastard!

I hoped the Trump era would be seen as an aberration and made less ugly by those who might have influence over the president. That hasn't happened. Rather than Republicans and people of faith checking his most unappealing sides, the president is dragging down virtually everyone within his orbit.15

was just a guy stumbling around in politics. The head of NCPAC was Terry Dolan. He was also gay and later died of AIDS. As far as I could tell, NCPAC was a gay organization dedicated to electing the most conservative and antigay politicians in America. A typical NCPAC fund-raising letter would include sections like "Our nation's moral fiber is being weakened by the growing homosexual movement and the fanatical ERA pushers (many

But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the past: almost everything good seems located in the past, perhaps that's an illusion, but I feel nostalgic for every era before I was born; and one is freer of modern inhibitions, perhaps because one bears no responsibility for the past, sometimes I feel simply ashamed of the time in which I live.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

I have had my innings. And in a way I am happy that I came in an era when a lot of attention was paid to different aspects of filmmaking.

I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.

We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security.

I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

In an era of instant communication, a flaw or non-perfect product creates immediate bad buzz.

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.

In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention.

In the new era of your life, Bring love for hate, peace for strife

He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.

Historians will probably call our era "the age of anxiety." Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.

Campaign laws are virtually nonexistent. By 1975, thirty-two people from the Nixon era had gone to jail or paid heavy fines for campaign finance law violations. All of the things for which they were convicted are now legal.

This new age is melting you all down, because it's not the measles you've come down with, it's the epoch.

Old-time tennis fans like to say the 1980s produced the greatest cast of characters and performers in tennis—McEnroe

Jesus is present only as a supreme representation of suffering and change, one that Shakespeare (in his dangerous era) shrewdly and invariably avoided.