Netherland Quotes & Sayings

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students. — Kamala Harris

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. — Friedrich Schiller

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone. — George O'Neil

It's harder to be a poor person than anything else. — Kathy Calvin

I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered. — Bikram Choudhury

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

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all. — Noel Fielding

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels. — Amy Waldman

The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein. — Jakob Bohme

The sailors in the Construction Battalions had been nicknamed Seabees, based on the initials of the unit. — Alex Malcolm

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. — Joanne Greenberg