Top 77 Quotes About The Netherlands: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Netherlands

#1. Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

John Lothrop Motley

#2. The Netherlands is a wonderful country," said Sigerius. "If you're determined to be a bad egg, there's a great big professional circle of friends ready to help you. Whoever doesn't have the balls to just get out and work, but does have a criminal record, is given a nice subsidized job.

Anonymous

#3. Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date - as in the Netherlands and later in England - and the protective interest receded into the background, they swiftly discovered that trade must be free - free to the nethermost recesses of hell.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#4. There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

Els Borst

#5. there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!

Robert Ludlum

#6. We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.

Max Fisher

#7. The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.

Mark Rutte

#8. Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. It was like an overgrown toy train that had gotten loose on the streets. She looked out and saw the Netherlands wobbling by - its ancient houses and constant canals and people in practical shoes.

Maureen Johnson

#9. Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

Donella Meadows

#10. The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

Otto Schily

#11. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#12. In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

David Sedaris

#13. In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Mark Rutte

#14. I was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot, prostitution and gambling, they had to outlaw something.

Quinn Cummings

#15. The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.

Alan Greenspan

#16. It is interesting to speculate whether commercial capitalism was thereby smothered in its crib in Egypt, just at a moment when it was beginning to take off in other places such as Italy, the Netherlands, and England.24 On

Francis Fukuyama

#17. Then he took me to look at the Maastricht animal, still today one of the world's most famous fossils. (Though the Netherlands has repeatedly asked for it back, the French have held on to it for more than two hundred years.)

Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#19. The importance of the Caja Laboral cannot be overstated. It started as a credit union but grew into something much bigger and more extensive - as have the Netherlands' Rabobank and France's Credit Agricole, both having started as savings co-ops for farmers.

Chris Beales

#20. There's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known, the din of human static slowly fades away, over and out.

Rob Schultheis

#21. Radical changes will come to the Netherlands. We stand for fundamental choices, and we need to make the right ones.

Mark Rutte

#22. The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

John Lothrop Motley

#23. I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.

Mark Rutte

#24. 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

#25. The Japanese Navy not only outgunned American forces in the Pacific but proved more powerful in that ocean than the combined navies of the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.

James M. Scott

#26. The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.

Hanya Yanagihara

#27. In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

George Bancroft

#28. We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Nick Clegg

#29. The current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

Andrew Sullivan

#30. Stonewall" has come to mark the origins of gay political activism although earlier groups in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the French movement that grew out of the May 1968 events cannot be ignored.

Chantal Zabus

#31. In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

Poppy Z. Brite

#32. The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

John Entwistle

#33. This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced ... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Gerhard Schroder

#34. 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

#35. My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#36. Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.

Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

#37. 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

#38. I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

Judy LaMarsh

#39. At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

Aaron Patzer

#40. When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Paul C. Nagel

#41. Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#42. In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.

Grant Petersen

#43. On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

Seth Low

#44. Perhaps it is not the belief of God that makes us happier but belief in something, anything. How else to explain the fact that the happiest countries in the world--Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands--are hardly religious at all?

Eric Weiner

#45. The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

John Lothrop Motley

#46. My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.

Andrew Dickson White

#47. Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Jan Wong

#48. If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#49. Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Paul Theroux

#50. The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Seth Low

#51. [On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ...

Mary Mapes Dodge

#52. I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.

Chad Coleman

#53. I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#54. Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.

Mark Rutte

#55. Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, We all do.

Bill Bryson

#56. It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.

Nelson Piquet

#57. I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.

Martin Schulz

#58. Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

Mark Rutte

#59. The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.

Mark Rutte

#60. My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.

Angel Olsen

#61. Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Johan Cruijff

#62. To ignore your own ignorance is to admit
that you were the biggest fool you never were.

P. Hermans
August 13, 2016
Netherlands

Petra Hermans

#63. - The one who parasitizes, suffers the most. -
Petra Hermans
Netherlands, 23-9-2016
Amen
God

Petra Hermans

#64. I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

Juliana Of The Netherlands

#65. The best quote has never been said nor written.
I do not need a quote.

P. Hermans
Netherlands, August 11, 2016

Petra Hermans

#66. 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

#67. I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.

Juliana Of The Netherlands

#68. I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Beatrix Of The Netherlands

#69. Nobody would be riding a racist Wilhelmina golden coach today in The Hague if the Dutch hadn't swept unpleasant aspects of their history under the rug.

Dauglas Dauglas

#70. I Always Knew I Carry The Key ... To The Universal Human Race,
Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle

December 6, 1972
Netherlands, Tilburg

May 2053
Completely in Harmony
In Silence and By Silence
Amen
God

Petra Hermans

#71. Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

Anne Frank

#72. How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people's eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?

Dauglas Dauglas