Quote

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

David McCullough

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
Author
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
Phenomenal
Utterly
Achievement

More quotes by David McCullough

Image
The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
David McCullough
Image
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
David McCullough
Image
There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
David McCullough
Image
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
Image
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
David McCullough
Image
It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
David McCullough
Image
Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
David McCullough
Image
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
Image
Home is really where education does begin.
David McCullough
Image
The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
David McCullough
Image
I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
David McCullough
Image
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
David McCullough
Image
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCullough
Image
The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
David McCullough
Image
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
David McCullough
Image
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
Image
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
David McCullough
Image
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
Image
People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.
David McCullough
Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
David McCullough