Amsterdam Quote by Jessie Burton

“Amsterdam mesmerized me. The narrow houses that lined the canals, the centuries-old architecture, the squares throughout the city and the cafés all had a…

— Ekamjit Ghuman

“Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think Amsterdam is…

— John Green

Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by a tolerance and openness to ideas unlike any world city…

— Marcel Wanders

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

— John Green

“Amsterdam is a city if sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

— John Green

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

“The retaining membrane that held Dutch culture together for more than a century was a marvel of elasticity. Responding to appropriate external stimuli, it…

— Simon Schama

“Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.”

— Jessie Burton

“The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The city reveals itself as a set of cells, a hundred thousand windows, some darkened and some flooded with green or white or golden…

— Olivia Laing

“Every time I force myself to go outside something wonderful happens (Humans of New York photographed subject)”

— Brandon Stanton

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

— Eddy de Clercq