Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou - Era Name

Famous quotes containing the word era:

“... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)