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David McCullough Quotes

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

David McCullough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1933

Topics

Men Wise Wise Men Roof Honest May

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

Great Football Team Coach Individual

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.

Robert J. Sawyer

Father Science Progress Me Physics

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

New York People City Me Growing Up

I've learned to go with your instincts. To go with your strengths and believe in yourself.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.

John Ralston Saul

People Immigration Citizenship Said

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Small Farming Outside Up Town North

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

Morning Great Me Balls Afraid Tell

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Think Holocaust Happen Again Rwanda

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Michel de Montaigne

Mind Speak Better My Own Others Own

One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don't get punched first. It's the same on defense: You've got to hit first. Do your work early. That's what I was always taught. If you don't do your work early, you're done.

Life Work End You Early Done

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

Me Learn Help My Own Backwards Own

The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

Men Me Gender Look More Having

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