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I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971. — Susan Howatch

in every thing one must consider the end." The — David McCullough

Living's for those of us who failed. Greedy God, gathering in the good ones, leaving the world to the rest of us, to rot. — Colleen McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough

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

Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy — David McCullough

Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that. — David McCullough

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. — David McCullough

Pen, ink, and paper and a sitting posture are great helps to attention and thinking. — David McCullough

He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In — David McCullough

Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness. — Colleen McCullough

Talk helps shape one's thoughts. — David McCullough

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

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly. — David McCullough

And read ... read all the time ... read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. — David McCullough Jr.

You do not have to feel good to do good. — Mamie McCullough

He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool, — David McCullough

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes. — David McCullough

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. — David McCullough

Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. With — David McCullough

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

You didn't happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you? — Kelly McCullough

Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action. — Mamie McCullough

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work. — Colleen McCullough

no getting too big for their britches, — David McCullough

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like. — David McCullough

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. — David McCullough

went to the cross eight months before His — Colleen McCullough

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth. — Colleen McCullough

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

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. — David McCullough

How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How — David McCullough

No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT — David McCullough

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing. — Colleen McCullough

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: He taught the love of truth. — David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. — David McCullough

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. — Colleen McCullough

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read. — David McCullough

...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality — David McCullough

Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams — David McCullough

Once rolling the train would travel under the code name "POTUS," for "President of the United States, — David McCullough

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

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

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough

The first of all qualities of a general is courage. — David McCullough

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. Their — David McCullough

Dyer 5 bu Paid 3.50 Hogs and Cattle Aug 23 9 hogs to K.C. 74.38 24 1 " " " 15.93 Oct 18 1 cow " " 32.85 — David McCullough

Vivez joyeux" was the old saying. "Live joyfully. — David McCullough

However little television you watch, watch less. — David McCullough

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

a leader must look and act the part. — David McCullough

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans — David McCullough

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation. — David McCullough

Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. — David McCullough

No man sees himself in a mirror as he really is, nor any woman. — Colleen McCullough

Sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications. — David McCullough

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind — Colleen McCullough

the formality of the presidency, all — David McCullough

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. — David McCullough

They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. — David McCullough

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. — David McCullough

sold into an indentured servitude — Colleen McCullough

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. — Colleen McCullough

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman — David McCullough

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society. — David McCullough

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. — David McCullough

Recently been killed in an accident. Much that he read — David McCullough

Remembered "the wind usually blows." Nowhere in the talk had he said a word about the gasoline — David McCullough

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things. — Colleen McCullough

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it. — Colleen McCullough

Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old. — David McCullough

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea. — David McCullough

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. — David McCullough

loved, and indulged to the full extent of her father — Colleen McCullough

Wilbur had already made an immensely important and altogether original advance toward their goal. — David McCullough

Boston Latin School. — David McCullough

She looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside. — Colleen McCullough

father could hope for in a son.To have — Colleen McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by. — David McCullough

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

remodeled glider to Kill Devil Hills to resume testing. — David McCullough

Among those who were about to stake so very much on him and his bridge, or who already had, there was not one who could honestly say he knew the man. — David McCullough

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more. — David McCullough

oldest of all forms — David McCullough

when you have something important to do, if there are two of you, you have one too many. — David McCullough

Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved. — Colleen McCullough

Today's prime fact is war," Henry Stimson had said at the start of one Interim — David McCullough

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have. — Colleen McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. — David McCullough

Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing. — Colleen McCullough

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right. ~John — David McCullough

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. — David McCullough

much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts — David McCullough

It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911 — David McCullough

Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson — David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to. — David McCullough

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough

You just hang onto the thought that every dog has its day, even the bitches — Colleen McCullough