Famous quotes containing the words era, significant and/or dates:
“... 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)
“Nothing significant was really said,
Though all agreed the talk superb....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)