Top 100 Mccullough Quotes
#1. It means she chose light over darkness. I want people to know that so they'll always remember.
I always will.
Bonnie McCullough
L.J.Smith
#2. I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.
Arthur Rock
#3. My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'
Bernie Mac
#4. Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.
Marisha Pessl
#6. What is destiny - a mechanical fact, a theoretical possibility, a concept, a superstition, a mere word? Ian McCullough was inclined to think one or another of these depending upon his mood. Destiny, the seemingly benign verso of fate.
Joyce Carol Oates
#7. Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.
Sarah MacLean
#8. I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.
Sarah MacLean
#11. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.
David McCullough
#12. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On
David McCullough
#14. Panama still more extraordinary machines would work an even more astonishing success. The wonderful thing was that the American dredges did
David McCullough
#15. In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life.
David McCullough
#16. The Reverend Chapman wrote later. I think none was afraid to meet God, but we all felt willing to put it off until a more propitious time . . .
David McCullough
#17. 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 Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.
David McCullough
#18. The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
David McCullough
#20. I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.
David McCullough
#21. I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
David McCullough
#22. Free speech is a restraint on government; not an incitement to the citizen.
David McCullough
#23. Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.
Colleen McCullough
#24. Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
David McCullough
#25. Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson
David McCullough
#26. When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.
David McCullough
#27. The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume that because people hold positions of responsibility they are therefore acting responsibly.
David McCullough
#28. But it isn't true," Orville responded emphatically, "to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.
David McCullough
#29. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCullough
#30. tocsin of an ideological crusade, has no limits," Lippmann warned.
David McCullough
#31. That's the purpose of old age ... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
Colleen McCullough
#34. The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring; the mighty fall at last, to be no more than dust before the wind.
Helen Craig McCullough
#35. Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough
#36. He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
Colleen McCullough
#37. On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in western Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer.
David McCullough
#39. With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
David McCullough
#40. Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Colleen McCullough
#42. 1 Blue River Country As an agricultural region, Missouri is not surpassed by any state in the Union. It is indeed the farmer's kingdom. . . . - The History of Jackson County, Missouri, 1881 I
David McCullough
#44. In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths.
David McCullough
#45. Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.
Colleen McCullough
#46. the Flyer and tossed it along the sand "just like you've seen an umbrella turned inside out and loose in the wind," remembered John
David McCullough
#47. We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly.
David McCullough
#48. History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
#49. on him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence
Colleen McCullough
#50. They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
David McCullough
#51. Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?
David McCullough
#52. But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid.
David McCullough
#53. He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In
David McCullough
#54. The important thing is that the President be saved from his friends. Bill Hassett urged Truman to rid himself of Boyle without delay. "Your friends will destroy you," Hassett pleaded. "It's all right, Bill," Truman said, as if trying to calm a child. "It's all right." Truman
David McCullough
#57. One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book
David McCullough
#58. She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
Colleen McCullough
#59. Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books.
David McCullough
#61. The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.
Colleen McCullough
#62. It is almost a reconciliation to having my leg broken to contemplate the amount of reading I am going to do this summer. I am getting better fast and I am afraid I'll get well so soon I won't get to read enough.
David McCullough
#63. Truman had been sitting in a chair in the bedroom with several new books stacked on a table beside him. Did the President like to read himself to sleep at night, McCormick asked. "No, young man," said Truman, "I like to read myself awake." Thomas
David McCullough
#64. If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.
David McCullough
#66. orgy of sampling Europe's charms, she never went back, and that was strange. In his experience people always
Colleen McCullough
#67. As the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established
David McCullough
#69. Why is it, Caesar, that there's always a man like Lucius Metellus?" "If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there'd be no place in it for men like me," said Caesar.
Colleen McCullough
#70. When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
David McCullough
#71. My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.
David McCullough
#72. He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.
David McCullough
#73. Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right. ~John
David McCullough
#74. Let us have gardens, then, and other public places where we may see our friends, and parade our vanities, if you will, before the eyes of the world. Did you ever know anyone who was not delighted with a garden? - John Sanderson
David McCullough
#75. Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough
#77. If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.
David McCullough
#78. As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.
David McCullough
#79. I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
David McCullough
#80. Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.
David McCullough
#81. Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
David McCullough
#83. The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved. . . .
David McCullough
#84. By the close of summer, with increasing losses from disease, desertions, and absences of one sort or other, his army was in serious decline. Spirits suffered. The patriotic fervor that had sent thousands rushing to the scene in late April and May was hardly evident any longer.
David McCullough
#85. Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
David McCullough
#86. The road won't always be easy but it will be worth it.
Cas McCullough
#88. Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman
David McCullough
#89. I may not hate al of the people all the time, but I hate all of them some of the time, and I hate some of them all of the time.
Kathy McCullough
#90. I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
David McCullough
#92. reputedly consulted with the spirit of a dead Sioux Indian chief.
David McCullough
#93. We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams
David McCullough
#94. Sadly, too many today take for granted public schools, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality before the law, forgetting that these were ever novel and daring ideas. Once
David McCullough
#95. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.
David McCullough
#97. Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,
David McCullough
#98. Wilbur would remark that if he were to give a young man advice on how to get ahead in life, he would say, Pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio.
David McCullough
#100. If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
David McCullough
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