Dusty Quotations

Dusty Quotations

“Dusty Quotations” are thought-provoking quotes from historical figures (writers, politicians, military officers, entertainers, etc.) You can click on the names below to see what these folks have said. These posts also include a biographical section on the speaker, following his or her quote… because learning is fun.

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Abagnale, Frank

Ali, Muhammad
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Alighieri, Dante
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Aquinas, Thomas
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Armstrong, Louis

Armstrong, Neil

Aurelius, Marcus
* #2

B

Baker, Josephine

Barclay, William

Beattie, Melody

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Begin, Menachem

Berra, Yogi
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Bismarck, Otto von

Bonaparte, Napoléon
* #2

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Bryan, William Jennings
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Buckley, WIlliam F. Jr.

C

Campbell, Thomas

Camus, Albert
* #2

Carver, George Washington

Chaplin, Charlie

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chesterton, G.K.
* #2

Christie, Agatha

Churchill, Winston

Collins, John Churton

Constantine the Great

Cortés, Hernán

D

Dangerfield, Rodney

daVinci, Leonardo

Descartes, René
* #2

de Jouvenel, Bertrand

de Toqueville, Alexis

Dickens, Charles

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
* #2

Douglass, Frederick

Du Bois, W. E. B

Dumas, Alexandre

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

E

Earhart, Amelia

Edison, Thomas A.

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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Ellington, Duke

Elliot, Elisabeth

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
* #2

F

Fellini, Federico

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Franklin, Benjamin

G

Gandhi, Mahatma
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Gilbran, Khalil

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Grant, Ulysses S.

H

Hamilton, Alexander

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hemingway, Ernest
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Hepburn, Audrey

Hepburn, Katharine

Hesburgh, Theodore

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
* #2

Hoover, Herbert

Hoover, J. Edgar

I

J

Jackson, Andrew

Jefferson, Thomas

Jones, John Paul

K

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kierkegaard, Soren

King, Martin Luther Jr.

L

L’Amour, Louis

La Fontaine, Jean de

L’Engle, Madeleine

Lewis, C.S.
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Lincoln, Abraham

Livingstone, David

Lombardi, Vince

M

MacArthur, Douglas

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Maistre, Joseph de

Mandela, Nelson

Marshall, George C.

Marshall, Thurgood

Melville, Herman
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Miller, Arthur
* #2

Moody, Dwight L.

N

Nietzsche, Friedrich
* #2

O

Orwell, George
* #2

O’Toole, Peter

P

Pascal, Blaise
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Patton, George S.
* #2

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Pissarro, Camille

Pliny the Elder

Q

R

Raleigh, Walter

Rockefeller Sr., John D.

Rockefeller, Nelson

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore
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Rossetti, Christina

Russell, Bertrand

S

Sagan, Carl
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Sartre, Jean-Paul

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schweitzer, Albert
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Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheen, Fulton J.

Shelley, Mary
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Smirnoff, Yakov

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
* #2

Spurgeon, Charles

Steinbeck, John
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Stevenson, Adlai I

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Suttner, Bertha von

Swift, Jonathan

T

Tagore, Rabindranath
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Tarkington, Booth

Teresa (Mother)

Thatcher, Margaret

Thoreau, Henry David
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
* #2

Traubel, Horace

Truman, Harry S.

Tubman, Harriet

Twain, Mark
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U

V

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Van Gogh, Vincent

Victoria (Queen)

Vonnegut, Kurt
* #2

W

Ward, William Arthur

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, George

Wilberforce, William

Williams, Tennessee

Woodson, Carter G.

Woolf, Virginia
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Wright, Orville

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