Netherlands Quotes · Page 2

I grew up in the Netherlands, in a small little town. Just a typical Dutch girl.

— NikkieTutorials

It is absolutely fantastic to have become Netherlands' most-capped player.

— Wesley Sneijder

The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.

— Frans Timmermans

In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.

— Louis van Gaal

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

— John Lothrop Motley

“Netherlands; a 'coffeeshop' is where one procures marijuana”

— Lonely Planet

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

— Mary Mapes Dodge

Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.

— Geert Wilders

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed…

— Geert Wilders

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already…

— John Lothrop Motley

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

— Paul Polman

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make…

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

Nobody, not even the EU, can tell us how to design our tax law. We can solve the problem with license boxes…

— Wolfgang Kubicki

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the…

— Gerhard Schroder

We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal…

— Max Fisher

At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of…

— Aaron Patzer

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to…

— George Bancroft

Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with…

— Theo Jansen

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward…

— Jim Shepard

My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays…

— Andrew Dickson White

... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all…

— Daniel J. Mitchell

“Holland is precisely a country of lean, fatless two-meters-high vampires. The living ones in Holland are only the buzzed-up-coffee Indonesians, whom they…

— Eduard Limonov

“I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night , will come into the…

— Anonymous

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn…

— David Sedaris

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname;…

— Willem Dafoe

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet…

— Seth Low

The Netherlands is a country I love and am very proud to be from, and I'm definitely supportive of the music scene…

— Hardwell

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

— Donella Meadows

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

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything;…

— Angel Olsen

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

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now…

— Mark Rutte

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

— Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

— Johan Cruijff

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

— Dennis Bergkamp

The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves…

— Franz Beckenbauer

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as…

— Paul Theroux

“Netherlands has some million and a half solitary old people, of whom over 300,000 are extremely lonely. That’s a lot.”

— Hendrik Groen