Quotes About Legacy

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.

after the ancient ondul fashion.

It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.

under the decree and guidance of the great King Sejong.

Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people strange to them and for reasons they scarcely understood, even when they yielded up their lives. With such noble impulse and final sacrifice, let the past be forgot, except for what it teaches for the future.

The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.

When my children were teenagers, I took them to meet the Sixteenth Karmapa. As they weren't Buddhists, I asked His Holiness to say something that didn't require any understanding of the dharma. Without hesitating, he told them: "You are going to die; and when you do, you will take nothing with you but your state of mind.

The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up, it's a brand-new sun. It's born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day, and in the evening it passes on, never to return again.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

Anger is a certified destroyer, from its birth till now, it is yet to build a lasting legacy

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

Classical ballet will never die.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.