31 Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nathaniel Philbrick

American Author

Born: Jun 11, 1956

First Great History Revolution Writing You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.' Nathaniel Philbrick

Love True Love First Follow True Towel Terrible Still Were Patriots

There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty. Nathaniel Philbrick

War Liberty Ugly Behavior Side Civil About Civil War Boston Sons Like Talk Lot Revolutionary Often Vigilante Groups

Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature. Nathaniel Philbrick

Joseph Leaders Like Lot Revolutionary Literature Warren Enlightenment

Pleasure Airplane Out Hotel Hotel Room Stuff Read Just Room Then

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it. Nathaniel Philbrick

Christmas Teacher Good Great History Writing Remember First Before About Writer Exchange Never Had Good Writer She Said Material Still Heard Pittsburgh Loving Really Who Level Cards

After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it. Nathaniel Philbrick

Library Year Brown Like Duke American Want After Literature American Literature English Dad Professor Jesus Program Pulled

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens. Nathaniel Philbrick

By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population. Nathaniel Philbrick

Local Virtually Had Whale Population

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. Nathaniel Philbrick

Time Needs Man Natural Matter Random Natural Disasters Attach Through Disasters How Inexplicable Tragedy Man Needs Meaning Event

The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth. Nathaniel Philbrick

Truth Best Struggle Strange Generation Remove Revolution Once Troubling Over Traces American Did American Revolution Actually

Whaling was the oil business of its day. Nathaniel Philbrick

Day Business Whaling Oil

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points. Nathaniel Philbrick

Home You Lose Points Know Children Twenty-Five

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another. Nathaniel Philbrick

Best Writing Word Move On Thinking Too Follow About Calculated Another Crafting Move Sentence Aside Should Set

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?' Nathaniel Philbrick

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes. Nathaniel Philbrick

Mind Willingly Something Adventure Person

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare. Nathaniel Philbrick

You Shakespeare Underestimate Influence Cannot

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.' Nathaniel Philbrick

Word Though Hating Read Up Grew Even

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century. Nathaniel Philbrick

XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed. Nathaniel Philbrick

Death You Try Impress Band Young Type Favorite Neil Neil Young Cab Stuff Like Also Impressed Huge Listened Children Fan

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