Chinese Era Names

Famous quotes containing the words era and/or names:

    “The era of long parades past an official podium filled with cold faces is gone. Celebrating is now a right, not a duty.”
    —Lothar De Maizière (b. 1940)

    “A knowledge that people live close by is,
    I think, enough. And even if only first names are ever exchanged
    The people who own them seem rock-true and marvelously self-sufficient.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)