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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A
Abagnale, Frank
Addair, George
Aeschylus
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Aesop
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Aldrin, Buzz
Al-Ghazali
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Ali, Muhammad
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Alighieri, Dante
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Angelica (Mother)
Angelou, Maya
Aquinas, Thomas
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Aristotle
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Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
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Asimov, Isaac
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Astaire, Fred
Augustine
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Augustus
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Aurelius, Marcus
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Austen, Jane
Austin, Stephen F.
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B
Bacon, Francis
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, James
Ball, Lucille
Barclay, William
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Beattie, Melody
Beckett, Samuel
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Beethoven, Ludwig van
Begin, Menachem
Bell, Art
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Berra, Yogi
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Bismarck, Otto von
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Blackbeard
Bonaparte, Napoléon
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Brown, John
Bryan, William Jennings
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Buck, Pearl S.
Buckley, William F. Jr.
Burke, Edmund
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Burns, George
Byron (Lord)
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C
Cabrini, Frances Xavier
Caesar, Julius
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Calvert, Cecil 2nd Baron Baltimore
Campbell, Thomas
Camus, Albert
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Cantor, Georg
Carnegie, Dale
Carrel, Alexis
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Carver, George Washington
Cato the Elder
Cato the Younger
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chanakya
Chang, Eileen
Chaplin, Charlie
Charlemagne
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Chesterton, G.K.
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Chomsky, Noam
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Christie, Agatha
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Churchill, Winston
Cleveland, Grover
Cliburn, Van
Cohn, Roy
Collins, John Churton
Coltrane, John
Columbus, Christopher
Confucius
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Constantine the Great
Cook, James
Coolidge, Calvin
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Cortés, Hernán
Crockett, Davy
Cromwell, Oliver
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Curie, Marie
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D
Dali, Salvador
Daltrey, Roger
Dangerfield, Rodney
daVinci, Leonardo
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da Gama, Vasco
Davis, Miles
de Gaulle, Charles
de Molay, Jacques
Descartes, René
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de Jouvenel, Bertrand
de Toqueville, Alexis
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Dickens, Charles
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Diogenes
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Disney, Walt
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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Douglass, Frederick
Drake, Francis
Dryden, John
Du Bois, W. E. B
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Dumas, Alexandre
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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E
Earhart, Amelia
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Edison, Thomas A.
Edwards, Jonathan
Einstein, Albert
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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Eliot, T.S.
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Ellington, Duke
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Elliot, Elisabeth
Elizabeth II
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Epictetus
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Euripides
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F
Fellini, Federico
Fillmore, Millard
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Foote, Shelby
Ford, Henry
Forster, E.M.
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Francis of Assisi
Frankl, Viktor
Franklin, Benjamin
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Frazier, Joe
Frederick the Great
Fuller, Thomas
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G
Gable, Clark
Gandhi, Mahatma
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Gibran, Khalil
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Gillespie, Dizzy
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Graham, Billy
Grant, Ulysses S.
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H
Hamilton, Alexander
Hammerstein-Equord, Kurt von
Hancock, John
Harrison, William Henry
Hartley, L.P.
Harvey, Paul
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Hedberg, Mitch
Hemingway, Ernest
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Henriques, Moses Cohen
Henry, O.
Henson, Jim
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Hesburgh, Theodore
Hesse, Hermann
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
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Homer
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Hoover, Herbert
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Hoover, J. Edgar
Hughes, Howard
Hugo, Victor
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Hume, David
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I
Ironside, H.A.
J
Jackson, Andrew
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Jackson, Michael
Jefferson, Thomas
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Jerome
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Joan of Arc
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John Paul II
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Jones, John Paul
Jones, Quincy
Jordan, Robert
Joseph (Chief)
Joyce, James
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Jung, Carl
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Justinian
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K
Kafka, Franz
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Kellogg, Will Keith
Kant, Immanuel
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Keats, John
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Keller, Helen
Kennedy, John F.
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Kennedy, Robert F.
Kidd, William
Kierkegaard, Soren
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King, Martin Luther Jr.
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King, Stephen
Kipling, Rudyard
Kubrick, Stanley
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L
L’Amour, Louis
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Landry, Tom
Lao Tzu
Lawrence, T.E.
L’Engle, Madeleine
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Lewis, C.S.
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Lincoln, Abraham
Lindbergh, Charles
Livingstone, David
Locke, John
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Lombardi, Vince
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M
MacArthur, Douglas
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MacCaig, Norman
Machiavelli, Niccolo
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Magellan, Ferdinand
Mahler, Gustav
Maistre, Joseph de
Malory, Thomas
Mandela, Nelson
Marshall, George C.
Marshall, Thurgood
Martin, Malachi
Marx, Groucho
Mason, George
McCourt, Frank
Melville, Herman
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Mencius
Miller, Arthur
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Moody, Dwight L.
Morgan, Sir Henry
Morgan, J.P.
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Musonius Rufus
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N
Newton, Isaac
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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Nixon, Richard
O
O’Connor, Sinead
O’Toole, Peter
Orwell, George
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Ovid
P
Paine, Thomas
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Parks, Rosa
Parsons, Jack
Pascal, Blaise
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Patton, George S.
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Pavese, Cesare
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Penn, William
Saint Peter
Peter the Great
Saint Philomena
Phillips, Waite
Picasso, Pablo
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Pierce, Franklin
Pio of Pietrelcina
Pissarro, Camille
Plato
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Pliny the Elder
Plutarch
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Polk, James K.
Polo, Marco
Prefontaine, Steve
Presley, Elvis
Pythagoras
Q
Quayle, Dan
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R
Rand, Ayn
Raleigh, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
Rhodes, Dusty
Riis, Jacob
Rockefeller, David
Rockefeller Sr., John D.
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rockne, Knute
Roddenberry, Gene
Rodin, Auguste
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
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Rossetti, Christina
Rothschild, Nathan Mayer
Rowling, J.K.
Rudolph, Wilma
Rumi
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Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
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S
Sagan, Carl
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Salinger, J.D.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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Schultz, Charles M.
Schweitzer, Albert
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Scott, Walter
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
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Seuss, Dr.
Shakespeare, William
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Shaw, George Bernard
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Sheen, Fulton J.
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Shelley, Mary
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Sherman, William Teceumseh
Simon, Carly
Smirnoff, Yakov
Socrates
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
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Spurgeon, Charles
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Steinbeck, John
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Steinem, Gloria
Stevenson, Adlai I
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Sulla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix)
Sun Tzu
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Suttner, Bertha von
Swift, Jonathan
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T
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Tagore, Rabindranath
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Tarkington, Booth
Tecumseh
Tennent, Gillbert
Teresa (Mother)
Tesla, Nikola
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Thatcher, Margaret
Thoreau, Henry David
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Tozer, A.W.
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Traubel, Horace
Travis, William B.
Trotsky, Leon
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Truman, Harry S.
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Tubman, Harriet
Turgenev, Ivan
Tutu, Desmond
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Twain, Mark
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U
Unknown
V
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Van Gogh, Vincent
Verne, Jules
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Vespucci, Amerigo
Victoria (Queen)
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Vidal, Gore
Virgil
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Voltaire
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von Braun, Werner
Vonnegut, Kurt
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W
Warburg, James P.
Ward, William Arthur
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Wayne, John
Wells, H.G.
Wesley, John
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West, Morris
White, T.H.
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Whitefield, George
Whitman, Walt
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Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, E.O.
Wooden, John
Woodson, Carter G.
Woolf, Virginia
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Wright, Orville
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X
X, Malcolm
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Y
Yeager, Chuck
Yutang, Lin
Z
Zeno of Citium
Ziglar, Zig