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David McCullough Quotes

David McCullough quotes

American Historian July 7, 1933

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David McCullough quote: "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is..."
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget. David McCullough
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. David McCullough
Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, "Thomas Jefferson survives. David McCullough
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. David McCullough
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a..."
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. David McCullough
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumps, even though checkered by failure, then to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have..."
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and..."
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. David McCullough
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) David McCullough
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. David McCullough
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. David McCullough

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