David McCullough Jr. quote: "Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you."

Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH JR.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.
You've got to become them."
(S...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Because of No Child Left Behind, sadly, history is being put on the back burner or taken off the sto...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not ve...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

[It could be argued that the Johnstown flood of 1889 wasn't a natural disaster at all, but the inevi...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interv...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

It couldn't have happened on a more appropriate day, given that she's been so much involved all alon...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

dropping the key in the box and slipping away in the night.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The problem with Adams,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I have to tell you, of all of Washington's strengths, his greatest strength was that he would not qu...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

They took stock of the situation, and they realized the war was over and we had lost,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

They might not look like soldiers, they might not know much about drill, and soldier's life . . . an...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The Johnstown flood was not an act of God or nature. It was brought by human failure, human shortsig...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

When the founders spoke of the pursuit of happiness they didn't mean longer vacations or more stuff....
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

It was like the parting of the seas.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The man who emerges is truly heroic, and that was a surprise for me, ... This is a greathearted fell...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Real success is finding your lifework in the worth that you love.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

If they want to make us park [in the stadium lots], then they should make the parking affordable. Bu...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I haven’t the faintest idea....
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The Great Bridge, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I came across a lot of material I wanted to use for the Adams book and wasn't able to,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I think how pleased he and Abigail would be if they were here to see how we've gathered today, ... t...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

We can know a lot by (Adams') friends and his loyalty to them, ... In the face of political disagree...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

It's a mistake and a great shame,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many other...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airpla...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with y...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. ...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what w...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Gr...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a mak...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In wha...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there a...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the b...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a ...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an a...
DAVID WILLIS MCCULLOUGH

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we ...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a f...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a ...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shor...
DAVID C. MCCULLOUGH

I lived in the US for donkeys' years so it has been a journey back in time for me. If you have had p...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they sh...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that ...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

Tar Heel would always come through and just pound North State. But it was fun, and I think it's alwa...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creatu...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

I personally don't want to see a nickel of my tax dollars subsidize a private development.
BILL MCCULLOUGH

Jake has tremendous feet and hands. He gets rid of the ball and he's very accurate, which is key. Yo...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

If my dad got chewed up like that ... I can assure you I would have been calling everybody.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

Because so many things were rationed, it was a big deal to get almost anything. Since I wore a unifo...
BILL MCCULLOUGH

When we make films, the approach we take is visually different. The angles we use, for example, that...
BILL MCCULLOUGH

We call ourselves filmmakers; that's what we do from start to finish, and it really takes advantage ...
BILL MCCULLOUGH

We had a couple of lapses and they made it close at the end, but it's good to have a win again. When...
JOHN MCCULLOUGH

They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

It is one of the biggest, best sellers of all time,
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK IN A MAN'S SHOES TO KNOW WHERE HE'S BEEN. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS, BUY HIM A NE...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

It means I don't have much depth of vision,
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

We read (the phrase) in the forward, where it talked about speakeasies. We didn't want a bar and gri...
SANDY MCCULLOUGH

Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more dam...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible.
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH

I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many m...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

We knew how preventable that was.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

We have a sneaking suspicion where it is.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

In the animal kingdom, it's a constant struggle. If you have an animal not happy with its position i...
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

It's not fit for human habitation, let alone animals.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

This dog, yesterday morning, we didn't think it was going to survive an hour. We were very concerned...
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH

And they were solid blacked out when we got started. Even their transmission lines were down.
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH

We packed up our stuff that night and spent their rest of the time we were there sleeping in their g...
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH

We were about to get a little depressed after three days without seeing any lights.
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH

That's in Marion County, near Guin.
ELBERT MCCULLOUGH

Once it was down, it was pretty easy. You just have to water it and mow it at specific times.
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH

I guess it's also easier for players to slide on, but that's the only other purpose it really serves...
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH

That's my job. We won't let this happen again.
ELLIOTT MCCULLOUGH

I think they have been sitting on their hands for a while.
DAVE MCCULLOUGH

You don't know cause you have always been paying the same bill.
DAVE MCCULLOUGH

The last round of layoffs were directly related to natural gas prices. This last round was a group o...
DAVE MCCULLOUGH

Starting in 2000, we started having problems with customers turning to China, and then all of a sudd...
DAVE MCCULLOUGH

It is a readjustment. We're going to stay here and I think we will survive this, but it won't be eas...
DAVE MCCULLOUGH

You didn't happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you?
KELLY MCCULLOUGH

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

It's funny because even to this day, people still know what Little League team they played for. And ...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH

You could look at the guy next to you and you knew what he went through. You'd know you'd go through...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH

I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very pa...
KELLY MCCULLOUGH

Any time you go anywhere on the road it is going to be tough.
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH

Any time you go anywhere on the road it is going to be tough. You can't let the other team's fans ge...
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH

It's a hustle thing. People just start staring instead of getting in there and fighting.
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH

Sally's a good consistent hitter. She's been that way. She'll hit that ball. She makes stuff happen....
NELSON MCCULLOUGH

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH

In Despite Of Sadness Don't Let It Conquer Ur Heart But Let Forgiveness and Acceptance Do And Happin...
RONALDO DAVID JR.

A lot of the kids come in with a lot of aggression. We usually try to calm them down and get them to...
DAVID RODRIGUEZ JR

There's some kids that are real hyper. No matter what you tell them, when that bell rings, they're g...
DAVID RODRIGUEZ JR

Most kids come in right off the bat, they want to put on a pair of gloves and beat on somebody. That...
DAVID RODRIGUEZ JR

The first thing they learn is discipline. You do what you're told, and you behave and listen to inst...
DAVID RODRIGUEZ JR

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
JR

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world.
JR

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR

With humour, there is life.
JR

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR

If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR

What we see changes who we are.
JR

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR

There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR

There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR

Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR

At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR

A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR

There is no police brutality.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end - and that is discord, alienation among Am...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement - speci...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Black Lives Matter organizers hold the same values of America's age-old enemies, who have always...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry,...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Now, can some cops be overbearing, rude? Yeah. But we have a process for that. Do what the officer t...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So m...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

The members of Black Lives Matter Movement are 'subhuman creeps.'
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Police use of deadly force is rare in America. You wouldn't know that by listening to some of th...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats' se...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

The Democrats take the black vote for granted so they don't have to appeal to anything... I have...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

This anti-cop sentiment from this hateful ideology called Black Lives Matter has fueled this rage ag...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

My dad used to tell me, 'Look, son, opportunity does not come knocking.' It's usually ru...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

We as a people need to declare that we stand with rule of law and not with the false tales of the re...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like sa...
DAVID J AIELLO JR.

Don't blame the police for having to deal aggressively due to underclass dysfunctional lifestyle...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

American law enforcement officers understand that race is and has been a heated issue in our country...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Donald Trump is the steadfast leader our nation needs.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any ...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

I would like to make something very clear: Blue Lives Matter!
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

I'm a cop at heart - it's in my blood.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. Th...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

In his personal life, Donald Trump shows that even when a family faces difficulties, the role of the...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Through the marginalization of black fathers and encouragement of destruction lifestyle choices, the...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.

We plan to continue to grow, so in the long run these are probably delays more than cancellations.
ALAN JR

I can't control what OPEC charges, but we can control our costs. It's going to probably delay some t...
ALAN JR

Where we can do better is where they (UPS) do extremely well, with the small and medium customer.
ALAN JR

Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN JR

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one pl...
JR. MURCHISON

This year's race showed that money, and lots of money, really matters. It was an unprecedented pheno...
ADOLFO JR

But I think competition is good. I am very competitive, if no one has noticed. And I think that if w...
ADOLFO JR

I don't even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it's...
ADOLFO JR

I would like to serve as mayor of this wonderful city. I think it's far too early to begin talking s...
ADOLFO JR

While we view the acquisition favorably, we are maintaining our market perform investment rating at ...
ALEXANDER JR

We believe Eaton Vance has a well-defined niche and reputation for tax-efficient investing, combined...
ALEXANDER JR

While I would like to see the company start generating profits sooner, I think (flat-rate pricing) i...
ALEXANDER JR

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
ALEXANDER JR

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

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Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

David McCullough Jr.

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