All Barbara Tuchman Quotes
- I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. End
- After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I… Always Wanted
- When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend… Children
- For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up… All
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of… Books
- Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. Bankers
- Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war. Battles
- A relentless talent for tactlessness. Relentless