Stuyvesant Quotes

#1. The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine. Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in.

Frank McCourt

#2. My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

Katha Pollitt

#3. Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

Ogden Nash

#4. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.

Sarah Vowell

#5. I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

Dorothy Malone

#6. We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

Jan Schakowsky

#7. It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

Peter Stuyvesant

#8. I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Peter Stuyvesant

#9. The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Peter Stuyvesant

#10. Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

Alex Pareene

#11. To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

Peter Stuyvesant

#12. Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

Peter Stuyvesant

#13. Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant

#14. The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

#15. Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

Peter Stuyvesant

#16. We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Peter Stuyvesant

#17. The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

Peter Stuyvesant

#18. If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

Claire Danes

#19. I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

Peter Stuyvesant

#20. Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

Peter Stuyvesant

#21. I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

Michael Sandel

#22. Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

Johannes Tauler

#23. Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

Barry Long

#24. The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

Peter Stuyvesant

#25. It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

Peter Stuyvesant