Quotes About Dutch

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

ANKER  (A'NKER)   n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.

You could look at the work of any Dutch master for an idea of the morning light we cycle through. There is a white cleanness to it, a rinsed quality. It's a sober light, without, for example, any of the orange particulate glow you get from the Mediterranean sun.

Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.

The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology—the printed book—and

It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

We hebben een hond!' zei hij. Trek schudde zijn manen en hinnikte. 'Wat moeten wij nou met een hond?' leek hij te vragen.

A ellos, españoles de lenguas y tierras diferentes entre sí, pero solidarios en la ambición, la soberbia y el sufrimiento, y no a los figurones retratados en primer término del lienzo, era a quien el holandés entregaba su maldita llave.

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.

They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.

I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.

The term casado then, even when applied to Asian inhabitants of the Estado, obviously preserved a sense in which it indicated a claim to bourgeois status, and in this manner was also a precursor to the category of burgher that the Dutch were to employ in Sri Lanka.

Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest

I would like a cappuccino, says Linus politely. Thank you. Your name? I'll spell it for you, he says. Z-W-P-A-E-N-- What? She stares at him, Sharpie in hand. Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. It's Dutch.

I try to pay for lunch, but Sam point-blank refuses, so we compromise on going Dutch.

the Dutch were another matter. Although the republic's population was tiny compared with that of France or Spain, it had emerged as a great power. It owed that power to trade, to carrying and handling the goods of others.

Dutch prosperity rested partly on their carrying the products of other nations more efficiently and cheaply than anyone else and partly on their possessing the naval might to protect their own trade and colonies and to harass those of others.

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.