“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.” ShouldHumansEndsCharacterViewsEffortEducationPrinciplesTeachGenerationsLandMankindYouthIntegrityFameSucceedAchievementDeedsNobleChiefsHallsEstablishmentCeremonyStatuesMonumentComes And GoesUsefulnessUprightnessNoble Deeds Author:Alexander H. Stephens
“Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.” MightCasesGenerationsCarCitizensInvolvedFameDoctorsVictimMedicineMereLeavingAccidentsDrivenDrivingTreatedDrunkNeighborhoodItalianEnginesPrincessGlobalizationRoyaltyTunnelsWhiskeyMotorcycleDutchEgyptianPaparazziScotchDianaCar AccidentForensicsBelgiansDrunk DrivingScotch WhiskeyCanvassing Author:Mark Riebling
“It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.” PeoplePersonsDifferentCountrySongGenerationsFameBritishSavedVansRockersDifferent Generations Author:Mose Allison
“I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.” NeedsFirstsArtEnoughHomeCultureLeftGenerationsLandFameAmbitionFortuneWideDeliberateAustralianMy Generation Book:Boyer Lectures 2011 Source: Boyer Lectures 2011
“I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.” PeopleNeedsDoneTermFocusGenerationsMediaFameNew Generation Author:Dan Aykroyd
“I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.” KnowsInterestRaceRecordsGenerationsFansNew YorkFameProjectsMusicianJazzWho I AmHipsRatsParticipatingRat Race Author:Paul Smoker
“To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.” FirstsKindDoeNamesWaterFateWrittenGenerationsFameLateToo LateFades Author:Mary C. Ames
“'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.” NightGenerationsFameAffectedSaturdayFeverSaturday NightSaturday Night Fever Author:Laurieann Gibson
“I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.” KindMeanDoeGenerationsYouthFameConceptsTouchedReally Mean Author:V V Brown
“To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.” YearsI CanMomentsGoalVoiceRecordsFiveGenerationsHavensAmountFameBandThirdsPressureIncrediblesScalesRelateFive YearsCobain Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.” PeopleShouldPersonsSoulSpiritForeverGenerationsFameFortuneEnlightenedTaoismLastingScholarshipPassing AwayEphemeral Author:Zicheng Hong
“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.” KnowsMenHandsDiesMemoriesGenerationsStrangeOne DayFameGloryGainsSpreadMythologyBroadsHolocaustFadesStrange ThingsInclineOdysseus Book:The Song of Achilles Source: The Song of Achilles
“A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.” DoeFallNationsGenerationsLandFameRemainsNoiseReputationMonument Author:Napoleon Bonaparte