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.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


A

Abagnale, Frank

Aeschylus

Aesop

Aldrin, Buzz

Ali, Muhammad

Alighieri, Dante

Angelou, Maya

Aquinas, Thomas

Aristotle

Armstrong, Louis

Armstrong, Neil

Astaire, Fred

Augustine

Augustus

Aurelius, Marcus

Return to Top

B

Baker, Josephine

Baldwin, James

Ball, Lucille

Barclay, William

Beattie, Melody

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Begin, Menachem

Berra, Yogi

Bismarck, Otto von

Bonaparte, Napoléon 

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Brown, John

Bryan, William Jennings

Buck, Pearl S.

Buckley, WIlliam F. Jr.

Burke, Edmund

Burns, George

Byron (Lord)

Return to Top

C

Caesar, Julius

Campbell, Thomas

Camus, Albert
* #2

Carrel, Alexis

Carver, George Washington

Chanakya

Chang, Eileen

Chaplin, Charlie

Charlemagne

Chesterton, G.K.

Chomsky, Noam

Christie, Agatha

Churchill, Winston

Confucius

Constantine the Great

Cortés, Hernán

Curie, Marie

Return to Top

D

Dali, Salvador

Daltrey, Roger

Dangerfield, Rodney

daVinci, Leonardo

Descartes, René

de Toqueville, Alexis

Dickens, Charles

Diogenes

Disney, Walt

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Douglass, Frederick

Du Bois, W. E. B

Dumas, Alexandre

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Return to Top

E

Earhart, Amelia

Edison, Thomas A.

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eliot, T.S.

Ellington, Duke

Elliot, Elisabeth

Elizabeth II

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Euripides

Return to Top

F

Fellini, Federico

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Foote, Shelby

Ford, Henry

Forster, E.M.

Frankl, Viktor

Franklin, Benjamin

Fuller, Thomas

Return to Top

G

Gable, Clark

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gilbran, Khalil

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Graham, Billy

Grant, Ulysses S.

Return to Top

H

Hamilton, Alexander

Harvey, Paul

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hedberg, Mitch

Hemingway, Ernest

Henry, O.

Hepburn, Audrey

Hepburn, Katharine

Hesburgh, Theodore

Hesse, Hermann

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
* #2

Hoover, Herbert

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hugo, Victor

Hume, David

Return to Top

I

Ironside, H.A.

J

Jackson, Andrew

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerome

Joan of Arc

John Paul II

Jones, John Paul

Jones, Quincy

Joyce, James

Jung, Carl

Return to Top

K

Kafka, Franz

Kant, Immanuel

Keller, Helen

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert F.

King, Martin Luther Jr.

King, Stephen

Return to Top

L

L’Amour, Louis

Landry, Tom

L’Engle, Madeleine

Lewis, C.S.
* #2

Lincoln, Abraham

Livingstone, David

Locke, John

Lombardi, Vince

Return to Top

M

MacArthur, Douglas

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Maistre, Joseph de

Mandela, Nelson

Marshall, George C.

Marshall, Thurgood

Marx, Groucho

Mason, George

Melville, Herman
* #2

Miller, Arthur

Moody, Dwight L.

Morgan, J.P.

Return to Top

N

Nietzsche, Friedrich
* #2

O

Orwell, George
* #2

O’Toole, Peter

Ovid

P

Parks, Rosa

Pascal, Blaise
* #2

Patton, George S.

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Penn, William

Picasso, Pablo

Pissarro, Camille

Plato

Plutarch

Presley, Elvis

Return to Top

R

Raleigh, Walter

Reagan, Ronald

Riis, Jacob

Rockefeller Sr., John D.

Rogers, Will

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore
* #2

Rossetti, Christina

Rowling, J.K.

Rumi

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

Return to Top

S

Sagan, Carl
* #2

Salinger, J.D.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schweitzer, Albert

Scott, Walter

Seuss, Dr.

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheen, Fulton J.

Shelley, Mary
* #2

Simon, Carly

Smirnoff, Yakov

Socrates

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Spurgeon, Charles

Steinbeck, John

Stevenson, Adlai I

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stoker, Bram

Sun Tzu
* #2

Suttner, Bertha von

Swift, Jonathan

Return to Top

T

Tagore, Rabindranath

Teresa (Mother)

Tesla, Nikola

Thatcher, Margaret

Thoreau, Henry David

Tolkien, J.R.R.
* #2

Tolstoy, Leo

Tozer, A.W.

Traubel, Horace

Trotsky, Leon

Truman, Harry S.

Tubman, Harriet

Turgenev, Ivan

Tutu, Desmond

Twain, Mark
* #2

Return to Top

U

Unknown

V

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Van Gogh, Vincent

Verne, Jules

Victoria

Virgil

Voltaire
* #2

Vonnegut, Kurt
* #2

Return to Top

W

Ward, William Arthur

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, George

Wayne, John

Wesley, John

Whitman, Walt

Wilberforce, William

Wilde, Oscar

Williams, Tennessee

Wooden, John

Woodson, Carter G.

Woolf, Virginia
* #2

Return to Top

Y

Yutang, Lin

Z

Ziglar, Zig