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Simon Schama Quotes

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too Picture Quote #1

My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I’d long stopped believing in God Picture Quote #1

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative Picture Quote #1

I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one’s cultural identity has always been fascinating to me Picture Quote #1

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be Picture Quote #1

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country Picture Quote #1

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It’s not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium Picture Quote #1

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go Picture Quote #1

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn’t an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body Picture Quote #1

I am somebody who has never been able to give up 60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor Picture Quote #1

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job Picture Quote #1

Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there’s nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms Picture Quote #1

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I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me Picture Quote #1

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle Picture Quote #1

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won Picture Quote #1

What can art really do in the face of atrocity? Picture Quote #1

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom Picture Quote #1

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them Picture Quote #1

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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy Picture Quote #1

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature Picture Quote #1

I don’t really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death Picture Quote #1

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, held the promise of cheating mortality Picture Quote #1

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. People want to be connected Picture Quote #1

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me Picture Quote #1

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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot Picture Quote #1

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The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too (Simon Schama Quotes) My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I’d long stopped believing in God (Simon Schama Quotes) History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative (Simon Schama Quotes) I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one’s cultural identity has always been fascinating to me (Simon Schama Quotes) Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be (Simon Schama Quotes) Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country (Simon Schama Quotes) It’s not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium (Simon Schama Quotes) If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go (Simon Schama Quotes) I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn’t an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body (Simon Schama Quotes) I am somebody who has never been able to give up 60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor (Simon Schama Quotes) I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job (Simon Schama Quotes) Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there’s nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms (Simon Schama Quotes) I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me (Simon Schama Quotes) Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle (Simon Schama Quotes) The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won (Simon Schama Quotes) What can art really do in the face of atrocity? (Simon Schama Quotes) Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom (Simon Schama Quotes) There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them (Simon Schama Quotes) From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy (Simon Schama Quotes) Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature (Simon Schama Quotes) I don’t really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death (Simon Schama Quotes) 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, held the promise of cheating mortality (Simon Schama Quotes) 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. People want to be connected (Simon Schama Quotes) The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me (Simon Schama Quotes) Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot (Simon Schama Quotes)

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