Quotes About Legacy

Bedis, Sodhis, Trehans and Bhallas coming down from Guru Nanak, Guru Ram Das, Guru Angad and Guru Amar Das

Four hundred and fifty years earlier, the poet Kabir, whose profession as a spinner/weaver was in part emulated by Gandhi, had also spoken of Ram-Rahim.

the speed with which the British left after announcing Independence and Partition may have been, in his words, 'the most contemptible single act in the annals of the Empire' (p 77).

No Indian can look back at that 1962 defeat with anything except embarrassment

On 19 November, the Maharaja and his army entered Peshawar. The next day he rode on an elephant through its bazaars—'the first time in 700 years that the city saw an Indian conqueror ride through its streets'.

Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

While one can do nothing about choosing one's relatives one can, as artist, choose one's "ancestors."

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July.

There's a lot of heredity in that family.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Lee was tough as hickory, but the tree was old.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.

Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans!