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Quotes About Dutch

I am writing to Russell at the same time. I think we know, don't we, that the English, the Yankees, have this much in common with the Dutch, that their charity…is very Christian. Now, the rest of us not being very good Christians…That's what I can't put out of my head writing again like this.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
~ Elvis Costello
The contemporary belief that the family meal is a place where children learn to become members of a moral society owes much to the Dutch.
~ Unknown
I had to make a decision: am I going to go for the football or make another choice. When you play in the Dutch second division, it's not like you can live off that for your whole life.
~ Vincent Janssen
The Dutch public always wants to see a team that is trying to be dominant, trying to play attractive football, and after that, hopefully, a team that is winning.
~ Frank Rijkaard
My background is in Dutch football.
~ Andreas Pereira
The East India Company created the Dutch empire in Indonesia by means of brute force combined with economic pressure.
~ Unknown
I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go viral when talking about taxes. Yet here we are.
~ Rutger Bregman
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
~ Willem Dafoe
You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.
~ Franz Beckenbauer
Because im dutch
~ Max Verstappen
MANY DUTCH CAME AS SETTLERS, THEY PUSHED THE NATIVE PEOPLE OFF THEIR LANDS. THE DUTCH FORMED THEIR OWN COLONY, A
~ Unknown
The discipline on Dutch ships was perhaps more brutal than on other European merchant ships… The official rulebooks allowed captains to punish any seamen who injured another by pinning him to the mast with a knife through his hand.
~ Unknown
The best place for this kind of training is Holland where people, convinced of their utter innocence, do not use curtains. After dusk the windows turn into little stages on which actors act out their evenings. Sequences of images bathed in yellow, warm light are the individual acts of the same production entitled 'Life'. Dutch painting. Moving lives.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.
~ Pam Jenoff
He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future. Dutch
~ Pat Frank