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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 61 quotes by Simon Schama Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University, New York. He first came to popular public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. In the United Kingdom, he is perhaps best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television... Read full biography of Simon Schama → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia... → 0 I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled. 0 I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to... → 0 At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers... → 0 In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive... → 0 Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they... → 0 In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion... → 0 Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather... → 0 The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So... → 0 You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the French Revolution, or... → 0 I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives.... → 0 It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our... → 0 I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for. 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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61 quotes by Simon Schama