People
- Pierre C. Van Wyck, NY District Attorney 1818-1821
- Charles Van Wyck (1824-1895), United States Senator from Nebraska
- Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849-1918), the first mayor of New York City after consolidation in 1898
- Augustus Van Wyck (1850-1922), New York lawyer and politician
- F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978), American historian and novelist
- Van Wyck Brooks, American writer and historian
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.””
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:1.