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Top 25 David Maraniss Quotes (2025 Update)

David Maraniss Quote: “Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it’s not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it’s changing. It truly is. I’m optimistic but skeptical.”

1. “Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it’s not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it’s changing. It truly is. I’m optimistic but skeptical.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.”

2. “Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject – the cultural and sociological geography – to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.”

3. “I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject – the cultural and sociological geography – to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “It’s hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.”

4. “It’s hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “I said that I’m only there to write the truth, I’m not going to cover anything up, but I’ll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.”

5. “I said that I’m only there to write the truth, I’m not going to cover anything up, but I’ll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city – taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.”

6. “Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city – taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition – what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.”

7. “There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition – what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “A date was soon set for the wedding. He and Marie were married on Saturday, August 31, 1940, at the Church of Our Lady of Refuge on East 196th Street in the Bronx. The nuptial mass was performed by the Reverend Jeremiah F. Nemecek, a Fordham football fan who idolized the Seven Blocks of Granite.”

8. “A date was soon set for the wedding. He and Marie were married on Saturday, August 31, 1940, at the Church of Our Lady of Refuge on East 196th Street in the Bronx. The nuptial mass was performed by the Reverend Jeremiah F. Nemecek, a Fordham football fan who idolized the Seven Blocks of Granite.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “You know, I’m too old to be an Eminem guy, but I love the back beat of that song. And he walks into the Fox Theatre and a black gospel choir is rising in song. And he turns to the camera and says...”

9. “You know, I’m too old to be an Eminem guy, but I love the back beat of that song. And he walks into the Fox Theatre and a black gospel choir is rising in song. And he turns to the camera and says...”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, “Dancing In The Streets.” You can’t forget the Motor City. And we can’t forget the Motor City.”

10. “My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, “Dancing In The Streets.” You can’t forget the Motor City. And we can’t forget the Motor City.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “As integral as religion was to his sense of self, it was not until he reached West Point and combined his spiritual discipline with Blaik’s military discipline that his coaching persona began to take its mature form. Everything he knew about organizing a team and preparing it to play its best, Lombardi said later, he learned at West Point. “It all came from Red Blaik.”

11. “As integral as religion was to his sense of self, it was not until he reached West Point and combined his spiritual discipline with Blaik’s military discipline that his coaching persona began to take its mature form. Everything he knew about organizing a team and preparing it to play its best, Lombardi said later, he learned at West Point. “It all came from Red Blaik.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they’re feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.”

12. “And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they’re feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “Year by year, as his reputation grew beyond Englewood, it became clearer to him that coaching was his life’s calling. Football coach was not what Harry and Matty had expected of their son, nor what his old classmates had predicted. In some ways it was a job below his own self-image. All of which worked in his favor. During his years in Englewood, Lombardi was driven by a contradiction, consumed by a sport and somewhat embarrassed that it was considered merely a game.”

13. “Year by year, as his reputation grew beyond Englewood, it became clearer to him that coaching was his life’s calling. Football coach was not what Harry and Matty had expected of their son, nor what his old classmates had predicted. In some ways it was a job below his own self-image. All of which worked in his favor. During his years in Englewood, Lombardi was driven by a contradiction, consumed by a sport and somewhat embarrassed that it was considered merely a game.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of ’62 and the spring of ’64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit’s demise coming.”

14. “It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of ’62 and the spring of ’64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit’s demise coming.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his “I Have A Dream” speech, two months before he did it in Washington.”

15. “It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his “I Have A Dream” speech, two months before he did it in Washington.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “The time was ordinary, 24 seconds, but the victory was historic. From that crowded little red house in Clarksville, out of an extended family of twenty-two kids, from a childhood of illness and leg braces, out of a small historically black college that had no scholarships, from a country where she could be hailed as a heroine and yet denied lunch at a counter, Skeeter had become golden, sweeping the sprints in Rome.”

16. “The time was ordinary, 24 seconds, but the victory was historic. From that crowded little red house in Clarksville, out of an extended family of twenty-two kids, from a childhood of illness and leg braces, out of a small historically black college that had no scholarships, from a country where she could be hailed as a heroine and yet denied lunch at a counter, Skeeter had become golden, sweeping the sprints in Rome.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.”

17. “I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can’t interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they’re gone and people are more willing to talk about them.”

18. “I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can’t interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they’re gone and people are more willing to talk about them.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren’t seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.”

19. “And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren’t seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.”

20. “My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “I want to write for history, not for the moment.”

21. “I want to write for history, not for the moment.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.”

22. “It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of ’62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.”

23. “Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of ’62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “Oftentimes the child is the father of the man.”

24. “Oftentimes the child is the father of the man.”

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David Maraniss Quote: “And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of “ask not what your country can do for you” in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.”

25. “And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of “ask not what your country can do for you” in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “There never was a champion who, to himself, was a good loser. There is a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.” In Blaik’s opinion the “purpose of the game is to win. To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game.” In this, as in most matters, he was influenced by General MacArthur. He never forgot MacArthur’s words: “There is no substitute for victory.”

26. “There never was a champion who, to himself, was a good loser. There is a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.” In Blaik’s opinion the “purpose of the game is to win. To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game.” In this, as in most matters, he was influenced by General MacArthur. He never forgot MacArthur’s words: “There is no substitute for victory.”

— David Maraniss

David Maraniss Quote: “Late on weekend nights, when Vince was at last free from athletics, he took Marie out to his favorite haunts with the Palaus and other friends. They often drove up Route 9W to Englewood Cliffs for a late meal at Leo’s and then some band music at the Rustic Cabin, where they fell into the habit of buying a beer and steak sandwich for a performer who came over to their table to chat after his closing set, a skinny young Italian crooner from Hoboken named Frank Sinatra.”

27. “Late on weekend nights, when Vince was at last free from athletics, he took Marie out to his favorite haunts with the Palaus and other friends. They often drove up Route 9W to Englewood Cliffs for a late meal at Leo’s and then some band music at the Rustic Cabin, where they fell into the habit of buying a beer and steak sandwich for a performer who came over to their table to chat after his closing set, a skinny young Italian crooner from Hoboken named Frank Sinatra.”

— David Maraniss

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