“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.” MotherNamesSeaLandNew YorkFameConquerGreekFlamesGiantsSunsetGatesYearningLightningLimbsExileWretchedTorchesBrazenStatue Of LibertyColossus Author:Emma Lazarus
“Everything has a price... No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life. I understood later that it's all about paper, Everything has a fee in the land of the free.” IfsMatterLandFamePaperUnderstoodFortuneHip HopRapFeesLand Of The Free Author:O.C.
“And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.” PeopleKnowsMayHandsEarthHouseNamesStrongHeavenLandArmsPrayingFameBuiltAccountsIsraelHearingAliensTheeStrong Hands Author:Solomon
“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
“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
“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.” MindDreamBodyLife IsLandStrangeFameAll ThingsRiversStreamsDelusionLastingWarfareOblivion Book:Meditations Source: Meditations
“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
“How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away.” IfsWantShouldTryingMindHeartFeelingsHandsNamesMeditationLandCryArmsFameQuietEgoCalmWaveRejects Author:Sri Chinmoy
“As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.” LifeLandStrangeBattleFameOblivion Author:Marcus Aurelius