Top 61 Quotes by Simon Schama

About Simon Schama

These are some quotes by British author Simon Schama Historian, who was born on February 13, 1945.

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.

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

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.

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

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 for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Simon Schama

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

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

Simon Schama

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

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

Simon Schama

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

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

Simon Schama

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.

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

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

Simon Schama

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.

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

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.

Simon Schama

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