I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Real success is finding your lifework in the worth that you love. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share
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… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share
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… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share
America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal… — David McCullough Copy Share
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a… — David McCullough Copy Share
