You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
