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David McCullough Quotes

David McCullough quotes

American Historian July 7, 1933

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David McCullough quote: "Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love."
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. David McCullough
The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as when dwelling on the countenance and voice of a lovely girl. I am in love with Europa. David McCullough
He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss). David McCullough
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough. David McCullough
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water..."
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard."
I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene."
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. David McCullough
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that. David McCullough
This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn’t be more timely and important. David McCullough
One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life..."
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. David McCullough
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) David McCullough
Washington Irving; “But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes—a gulf subjected to tempest and fear and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious. David McCullough

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