"I love Dickens. I love the way he…" — David McCullough
"I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene."
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96 Quotes by David McCullough
David McCullough has 96 quotes on this site.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules,…
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth…
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour…
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power…
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The…
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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More Dickens Quotes
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
— Alan Bennett
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as…
— Danny Boyle
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
— William Shakespeare
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of…
— Michael Jackson
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick…
— Bob Dylan
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is…
— John Berger
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
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Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the…
— Michael Swanwick
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