Dutch Quotes

• The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

  Nora Ephron

  Achievement, Movement, Treats

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.81, Vintage

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• When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.

  Karel Appel

  Ocean, Book, Space

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.

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• To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

  Ruud Gullit

  Soccer, Play, Holland

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• My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.

  Ferran Adria

  Soccer, Player, Idols

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• These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.

  Seth Low

  Gratitude, Believe, Names

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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Venice, Mind

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Two, Literature, Drink

  Daniel Defoe (1788). “The True Born Englishman. A Satire. A New Edition”, p.14

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• I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Dog, Half, Hell

  "Audrey Hepburn" by Barry Paris, (p. 46), 2002.

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• When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

  Mira Sorvino

  Mother, Party, Play

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• I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Amsterdam, Facts

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• You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

  Billy Tauzin

  Water, Canals, Deals

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• I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

  Michelle Hunziker

  Mother, Father, School

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

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Cds

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• 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

  Offering, Littles, Matter

  Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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• 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, Netherlands, Plymouth

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Soccer, Football

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Simple

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• Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Goal

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• The Dutch are a very practical people.

  Famke Janssen

  People, Practicals

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• I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

  Lewis Carroll

  Greek, Vex, Hebrew

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.

  Tyler Florence

  Fall, Simple, Mushrooms

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• The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thrifty, Poor Richard, Maxims

  Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.36

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• In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Expression, Attention

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• A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Horse, Donkey

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• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  Bent Larsen

  Small Numbers, Games, Play

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