"I felt New York was a big, more……" — Simon Schama

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57 Quotes by Simon Schama

Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…

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More Big Quotes

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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see… — Diane Ackerman
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some… — Michelle Bachelet
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs… — Michele Bachmann
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people,… — Michele Bachmann

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