Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
Author
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
Eternal
Balloon
Rest
Balloons
Bubble
Cradle
Bubbles
Grave
Graves
Morality
More quotes by David McCullough
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
The most interesting people are never perfect.
David McCullough
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
David McCullough
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
David McCullough
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
David McCullough
There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
David McCullough
Nobody ever lived in the past.
David McCullough
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
Home is really where education does begin.
David McCullough
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
David McCullough
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
David McCullough
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
David McCullough
Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
David McCullough
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
David McCullough
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
David McCullough
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.
David McCullough
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
David McCullough
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
David McCullough
