58 Dutch Quotes for You to Enjoy

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. Anthony Geary

Me You People Speak Language Live Think Say Would People Say Only Nobody French Learn Because Courtesy Dutch Common Want Speaks Even Why Why Not Here

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Canning

Fault Too Much Matters Too Clap Per Advantage Equal French Content Commerce Offering Dutch Just Cent Little Much Asking Twenty

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. Helmut Schmidt

Democracy Independence Out About Only Directions Point Main Developments Ideas French Got Coming Years Existed End American Dutch May Different Different Directions Declaration Centuries Mankind Many Europeans Started British

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. Albert Bushnell Hart

Wise Free Settlers Later Brought Plymouth Netherlands Colonies Had Contact Institutions American Dutch Residence Conquest

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

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

Music School Master Thanks House Got Mixer Friends Dutch Ben

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero. Bas Rutten

Hero Bruce He Goal Dutch Wanted

What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here. Bill Buford

People Crushed Settled Seven Born More Onto Mainly New Island Answer Were Than York Dutch New York Straightforward Who Even Originally Million Million People Here

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form. Chris Gardner

Art You Game Right Moment Kid Directions Had Picking Over Practiced Opposite Art Form Jump Dutch Just Where Form Double Rope Ropes Moment Swinging Right Played Two

I think so often about how, when I was starting out at UCB, Conan O'Brien was in town, and on his show back then, they sometimes did character bits, and I started getting paid to dress up as a page or a Dutch boy on his show. Chris Gethard

Character Sometimes Think Back Bits Out Dress Dress-Up About Conan Town Boy How His Up Did Getting Dutch Often Then Page Paid Show Started Starting

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. Chris Van Allsburg

Kind About Boy Heard Hubris Authors Dutch Stories Midwest Filled

Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch. Christian de Duve

Education War World Parents First National Benefit City Born Classical Cosmopolitan Had French Partly First World First World War Up German Dutch Taught Where Grew Roots Languages England Belgium Two World War

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products! Christien Meindertsma

Single Year Field Tea Other Enough Hundreds Weaving Bought Towels Industrial Enable Textile Items Owned Dutch Producer Producing Production Products Now Grown-Up Level Museum

I have been fortunate to work with many great coaches and also in different countries, and I have taken a bit from all of them - Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian football. Clarence Seedorf

Work Great Bit Football Taken Countries Also Been Italian Dutch Brazilian Different Different Countries Spanish Them Coaches Fortunate Many

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. Daniel Defoe

Will Drink Maintain Fairly Families Dutch Much Englishman Two

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up. Darby Stanchfield

Channel Out Born Catch Deadliest Islands Discovery Up Dutch Where Grew Place Harbor Show Film Raised

I grew up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska - a place so tiny, we got only one channel on TV. The high school and middle school had 50 kids total! Darby Stanchfield

School Channel Kids TV High Total High School Only Had Got Up Dutch Tiny Middle Grew Middle School Place Harbor Alaska

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch. Douglas Brinkley

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived. Els Borst

Attitude War Government World Community Late Our Hesitation Minister Would Postwar Both Had Prime Prime Minister Conceived Without Refer Been Discovery Very Offered Dutch Process Poorly Apology Second World War Second World War Jewish Jewish Community

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them. Els Borst

Government Feeling Would London Netherlands Had Instructed Occupied Catholics Been Germany Reformed Dutch Them Help Population Christians

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. Emo Philips

Released Missionaries Return German Dutch Actually Two

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

Better Thought Neighborhood Neighbors Out Besides Scare Clear Fake Than Getting Dutch Upset Where Them Might Whole Bomb Here

The Dutch are a very practical people. Famke Janssen

People Practical Very Dutch

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football! Frank Rijkaard

Club Once Charge Introduced Football Dutch Then Team

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