We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it,… — 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
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the… — 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
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and… — 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
