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Eras Quotes

On decades, history, and changing ages.

These eras quotes include a fond nod to a favorite decade's music alongside a sharper claim that every era carries its own superstitions, not just the past. See our Always quotes for related reflection.

A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

Quotes by Aaron Diehl

The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

Quotes by Zoe Kravitz

My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting...

Quotes by Susan Barker

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.

Quotes by Sunil Gavaskar

Always Quotes

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.

Quotes by Stephen Moyer

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Quotes by Sam Walter Foss

I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and...

Quotes by Rick Riordan

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.

Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne

My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.

Quotes by Phoebe Philo

America Quotes

Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.

Quotes by Peleg Top

Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to...

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.

Quotes by Nicola Griffith

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.

Quotes by Nelson Rockefeller

Come Quotes

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

Quotes by Laz Alonso

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again....

Quotes by Lauren Groff

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Quotes by Kelly Wearstler

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Good Quotes

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire...

Quotes by Joe Lieberman

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the main theme running through these eras quotes?
Comparing favorite decades, questioning how different past ages really were from the present, and blending styles from different periods.
Is there a quote naming a favorite decade?
Yes, one speaker names the 1960s specifically, citing the music as a lasting favorite.
Does any quote challenge assumptions about history?
One does, arguing every era carries its own superstition rather than treating the past as uniquely irrational.
Is design or furniture mentioned in this topic?
Yes, one line credits mixing pieces from different periods with giving a finished space real character.
What topic pairs well with this one?
Our Come quotes touch on change and arrival across time in a related way.

Another line ties mixing furniture from different periods to giving a space real character. Continue with our America and Come quotes.