AtomicQuote

Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton

Barbara W. Tuchman

Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton

Tags: maturation

Related Quotes

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Tags: add, build, build up, family, friends, friendships, growth, marriage, maturation, opportunity

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

Tags: advance, advancing, blocks, building blocks, experiences, future, granite, growing, growth, lesson

The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our lives help us to understand the norms of common knowledge and take pride of our citizenship.

Saaif Alam

The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our lives help us to understand the norms of common knowledge and take pride of our citizenship.

Tags: civic responsibility, education, maturation

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Barbara W. Tuchman

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Tags: down here, humility, maturation, perspective

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Bill Bryson

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Tags: education, graciousness, humility, maturation

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Jules Verne

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Tags: discipleship, empathy, maturation

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

Dave Harvey

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

Tags: discipleship, evangelism, gospel centred, intimacy with god, maturation

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Tom Clancy

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Tags: bravery, character, discipleship, faith, maturation

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Joseph J. Ellis

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Tags: influence, maturation, rebellion, submission

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

Facts of Life

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

Tags: maturation, parenting
About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.