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Quotes About Dutch

As the evening droned on, Einstein turned to a Dutch diplomat seated next to him and said, "I've just developed a new theory of eternity.
~ Walter Isaacson
Hugo van Lawick, the Dutch filmmaker who recorded Jane's discoveries, ultimately became her first husband.
~ Jane Goodall
And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.
~ Ernst Zundel
I experienced great professionalism in Dutch football. I don't want to give a stereotypical view of them, but they are needy in terms of wanting to know exactly what the game plan is, what their role is, that information.
~ Alan Pardew
We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.
~ Ruud Gullit
While surrender negotiations were under way—a Dutch officer had come to German headquarters near the bridge to discuss the details and was returning with the German terms—bombers appeared and wiped out the heart of the great city. Some eight hundred persons, almost entirely civilians, were massacred, several thousand wounded and 78,000 made homeless.
~ William L. Shirer
Great Britain, an island off the Dutch coast, which is responsible for the happiness of fully one-quarter of the human race. Per: Van Loon's Geography, Copy-write 1932. Garden City Publishing, Copy-write 1937; Page-216.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
~ Anne Frank
The Dutch league is not one of the strongest five leagues in the world, or even Europe, and that's why it is difficult to maintain.
~ Edwin van der Sar
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.
~ Antony Gormley
Dutch governor of Batavia, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, came up with an alternative plan. Coen founded Batavia, on the island of Java, as the Dutch East India Company's new capital in 1618. In 1621 he sailed to Banda with a fleet and proceeded to massacre almost the entire population of the islands, probably about fifteen thousand people.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
The Enigma of Japanese Power, by Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen
~ Dave Barry
Coffee became the stimulant of choice for the new nation, bought primarily from the Dutch—thus the moniker "java.
~ Dave Eggers
Sebenarnya, rakyat Indonesia pada dasarnya bangsa yang lemah, patuh dan pendiam. Tetapi orang Belanda sendiri pernah mengatakan, di dalam jiwa orang Indonesia terdapat semangat seekor harimau. Dan apabila kami diterkam, kami sanggup melakukan tindakan-tindakan besar.
~ Cindy Adams
Right, Thomas Cromwell," she said. "Make a note of this. No strange Dutch drinks. No women. No banned preachers in cellars. I know what you do." "I don't know if I can stay out of cellars." "Here's a bargain. You can take him to a sermon if you don't take him to a brothel.
~ Hilary Mantel
Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism.
~ Geert Wilders
I never got to train with the likes of Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart, but I am from the club where they were. I am not Dutch, but I am from a club where they both played with the same style. They've had really big success when they left Ajax, so I hope I can achieve the same.
~ Christian Eriksen
Guys like Chuckie, Laidback Luke, Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren and many other Dutch DJs were all influential for me growing up.
~ Hardwell
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
~ James Weldon Johnson
These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.
~ Seth Low
As far back as 1602, Dutch people were buying shares in the United Dutch East India Company. This was the world's first popular stock, sold on the world's first popular stock exchange, which operated from a bridge over the Amstel River in Amsterdam. Crowds of eager investors gathered there, trying to get the attention of a stockbroker, and when their pushing and shoving got out of hand, police were called in to restore the peace.
~ Peter Lynch
LIBERATION IS PERHAPS not the right word to describe the end of the war in colonial societies. Most Asians were more than happy to be rid of the Japanese, whose "Asian liberation" had turned out to be worse than the Western imperialism it temporarily replaced. But liberation is not quite what the Dutch had in mind for the Dutch East Indies in 1945, or the French for Indochina, or the British for Malaya.
~ Unknown
The fact that both killers arrived on bikes added a peculiarly Dutch flavor to their murders.
~ Unknown
For many tourists, a trip to Pennsylvania includes a visit to the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch country. That's an area in the southeastern part of the state where some Mennonite and Amish groups (among others) make their homes. One theory is that the term "Dutch" came about because many of the people are of German descent, and the word Deutsch was mispronounced as Dutch.
~ Unknown