"We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing……" — Simon Schama
"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."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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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 Allowing Quotes
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one of 648 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in…
— Joe Baca
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
— Martha Beck
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A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something…
— Christina Aguilera
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing…
— Benjamin Carson
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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try…
— Benjamin Carson
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be…
— Benjamin Carson
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I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
— Noam Chomsky
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us…
— Laurel Clark
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
— Jennifer Aniston
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