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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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: February 13, 1945

Topics

Cheating Seasons Earth Become Dead

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

John Muir

Tree Walk Forest Forget Will First

I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera operator, so I shot a lot of miniatures.

John Knoll

Control Camera Career First Started

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Robert Kennedy

Children Death Violence Lake Product

I'm very lucky to live my life through a sport that I love. I'm in a very privileged position that my work is my hobby.

Tony McCoy

Life Work Love Live My Life Hobby

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Lou Reed

Work Keep Going New York Writing New

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Jules Feiffer

Sky Red Blue People Stupid Think

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Jay Carney

Money Saying America You Debt Need

I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

Denis O'Hare

Friend Sad Feet Ready Copy True

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.

Brad Feld

People Someone Trying Introduction

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

Bobby Riggs

I Am Game Defensive Player Finest

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Plato

Vision Eyes Soul Endure Divine

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

Rick Scott

Small Frustration Know Taxes Higher