Eras Quotes · Page 4

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

— Martin Wong

The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.…

— Koji Nakanishi

I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is…

— Brian K. Vaughan

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have…

— Learned Hand

I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

— Jeremy Rifkin

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the…

— Andy Couturier

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

— Alphonso Jackson

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and…

— Van Jones

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During…

— Jimmy Carter

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that…

— Athol Fugard

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best…

— Anne Rice

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

— Dennis Cooper

If I- if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion…

— CM Punk

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

— Thomas Sowell

I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you…

— Jude Law

The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world…

— Frederick Lenz

When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks…

— Angelina Grimke

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

— Nipsey Russell

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

— Dale Jamieson

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew…

— Patti LuPone

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no…

— Bernadette Peters

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which…

— Hillary Clinton