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I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for. — Simon Schama

Spencer W. Kimball: No Ordinary Man," Ensign, Mar. 1974, 3. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them. — Simon Schama

Great spenders are bad lenders. — Benjamin Franklin

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history. — Simon Schama

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be. — Simon Schama

You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors — Abraham Lincoln

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history. — Simon Schama

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication. — Simon Schama

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium. — Simon Schama

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

Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What — Simon Schama

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country. — Simon Schama

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. — Simon Schama

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama

His coat smelled like Irish Spring and a little bit like potpourri. — Rainbow Rowell

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. — Simon Schama

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept. — Simon Schama

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think. — Simon Schama

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it. — Simon Schama

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled. — Simon Schama

Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind. — Donna White

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it — Tullian Tchividjian

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

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. — Simon Schama

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. — Simon Schama

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

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

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle. — Simon Schama

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

An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A — Simon Schama

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won. — Simon Schama