Eras Quotes - Page 2

• I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

  Stephen Moyer

  Thinking, Vampire, Facts

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• We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Race, Years

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Book, Periods, Trembling

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Community, Criminals

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• In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

  Hugh Sidey

  Technology, World, May

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• Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

  Walt Disney

  Horse, Heart, America

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• ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mean, Abortion, Privilege

  "A new version of the ERA" by Beth Fouhy, edition.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.

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• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Player, Different

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

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Cities, Athens

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• I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

  Fred Savage

  Black And White, Watches, Classic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Harry Seidler

  Views, Starting Over, Periods

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• It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Art, People, Essentials

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• People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Men, Games

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• 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

  Hands, Financial, Appearance

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

  Polykarp Kusch

  Able, Fortunate

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• Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

  Mary McAleese

  New Relationship, Adversity, America

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• I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

  Gemma Arterton

  Party, Wish, London

  "Gemma Arterton Falls for The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" by Jami Philbrick, movieweb.com. May 15, 2010.

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• The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

  Charlton Heston

  Sound, Film, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Determination, Real, Government

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.178

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• Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Sports, Play, Quality

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• It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

  Akshay Kumar

  Hero, Tired, Voice

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• Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

  Maya Lin

  Parent, Chinese, Would Be

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• 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.

  Ivan Allen, Jr.

  Rights, Atlanta, Special

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• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Virtue, Old Fashioned, Grows

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• The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Today

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