18 Amsterdam Quotes for You to Enjoy

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Janet Echelman

Life City River Been Central Centuries Four Last Amsterdam

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities. Roger Penrose

Work Mathematics Me Try Reading Congress Saw Drawing Inspired Cambridge Impossibilities Hand International Fascinating Amsterdam

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world. Alice Morse Earle

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script. Dick Van Dyke

Everybody Air Once Pretty Except Stuck Got Script Much Amsterdam

I'm not going back to Amsterdam, though it would be very comfortable there with Frank de Boer, Danny Blind, and Dennis Bergkamp. When I left 12 years ago, I said I would return, but I did not know then what great years I would have with Manchester United. I might occasionally visit training with them, but I will not be going regularly. Edwin van der Sar

Great Training Will Back Frank Though Danny Visit Would Would-Be Know Blind Return Occasionally Comfortable Said Years Years Ago Left Very Did Going Manchester Manchester United Them Might Then Regularly United Amsterdam

Every time I hear that Champions League song, it reminds me of hearing it for the first time in the old Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. Edwin van der Sar

Time Me Song Old First Every Every Time Reminds League First Time Hear Hearing Stadium Champions Champions League Amsterdam Olympic

I think there are always a lot of rumours about players from Ajax. We develop great players, not only in Amsterdam but hopefully also in Cape Town, and there is interest in a lot of our players, but we like to keep them for as long as possible. Edwin van der Sar

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me. Els Borst

War Time Great Me Made Few Jews Our Saw Neighborhood Neighbors Taken Also Houses Always How Were Impression Up Very Where Us Inhabited Many Lived Downstairs Rounded Away Amsterdam

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam. Ezra Koenig

Have Fun Always Bike Europe Fun Riding Amsterdam

My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children fly off for the weekend to Riga, Prague, or Barcelona. Frans Timmermans

Fly Parents Honeymoon Married Weekend Prague Came Off Huge Huge Thing Children Them Barcelona Event Now Thing Amsterdam

People travel overseas to do things overseas that aren't legal in Ireland all the time. You know, are we going to stop people going to Las Vegas? Are we going to stop people going to Amsterdam? There are things that are illegal in Ireland, and we don't prevent people from travelling overseas to avail of them. Leo Varadkar

Time You Travel Legal People Prevent Vegas Know Overseas Ireland Going Stop Avail Them Illegal Travelling Things Las Vegas Amsterdam

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam. Linda Cardellini

Back Never Got Been Just Which Switzerland Amsterdam

Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies. Marcel Wanders

You Creative Yourself Creativity Walk Building Find Hub Century Breathes Next Moment Companies Lives Start-Up Amsterdam

Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. When we spend time with them, I think we do our utmost best to be really with them - on vacations or during weekends or even at breakfast in the morning. Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Time Best Day Morning Sometimes Breakfast Think Our Spend Flying Kids Weekends New York Via Just New York Them Really Means Your Even Utmost Vacations Amsterdam

I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the 4-H club have the same collection of Johnny Cash records as the punk on the street in Amsterdam. John Carter Cash

Punk Club Think Collection Cash Diverse Johnny Johnny Cash Records Another Same Artist Ladies Fan Fan Base Who Base Street Amsterdam

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