Quotes of David McCullough - somelinesforyou

“ Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. ”

- David McCullough

“ Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. ”

- David McCullough

“ Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. ”

- David McCullough

“ Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. ”

- David McCullough Jr

“ History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”

- David McCullough

“ The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. ”

- David McCullough

“ No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read. ”

- David McCullough

“ You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history. ”

- David McCullough

“ To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is." [The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile] ”

- David McCullough

“ Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth. ”

- David McCullough

“ History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”

- 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

“ No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." (The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003) ”

- 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

“ The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many. ”

- 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

“ The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many. ”

- David McCullough

“ Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. ”

- David McCullough

“ Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. ”

- David McCullough

“ The Great Bridge, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. ”

- David McCullough

“ What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress. ”

- David McCullough

“ No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. ”

- David McCullough

“ Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. ”

- David McCullough

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

- David McCullough

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

- David McCullough

“ My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. ”

- David McCullough

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

- David McCullough

“ No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. ”

- David McCullough

“ Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. ”

- David McCullough

“ It's a mistake and a great shame. ”

- David McCullough
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