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History Quotes by David McCullough
- I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I…
- To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the…
- History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course…
- Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was…
- Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a…
- A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
- The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is…
- History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,…
- History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
- I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
- You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in…
- No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
- Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough