Netherlands Quotes · Page 2

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

— Mark Rutte

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

— Dennis Bergkamp

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

I don't want a wall being built around the Netherlands.

— Geert Wilders

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

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

— Roger Ross Williams

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a…

— Eduard Shevardnadze

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

— Geert Wilders

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

— Seth Low

Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League…

— Johan Cruijff

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch…

— Wim Crouwel

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

— Gerhard Schroder

I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about…

— Judy LaMarsh

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

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

We've played against guys from Curacao, guys from the Netherlands since we were little. Now we play together with them; some of…

— Xander Bogaerts

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

— Mary Mapes Dodge

[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

Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like…

— Bill Gates

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

— Franz Beckenbauer

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who…

— Pico Iyer

I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.

— Louis van Gaal

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

— Els Borst