Stuyvesant's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.

N.K.David

#4. Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women can bestow. Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

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

Peter Stuyvesant

#6. 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

#7. Magnets collide, and swiftly align.

Laini Taylor

#8. 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

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

Peter Stuyvesant

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

Peter Stuyvesant

#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 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

#15. Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Raymond Aubrac

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

Peter Stuyvesant

#17. 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

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

Peter Stuyvesant

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

Peter Stuyvesant

#20. My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.

Emma Forrest

#21. 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

#22. They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'

Mark Lester

#23. I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

David Malpass

#24. When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?

Gangaji

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

Peter Stuyvesant

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

Peter Stuyvesant