Dutch Quotes - Page 5

• Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Christmas, Baby, Believe

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• Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Christian, Sleep, Sea

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• RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Freedom, Garden, May

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Architecture

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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

  Mason Cooley

  Garden, Snakes, Paradise

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• To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

  Ruud Gullit

  Play, Holland

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• Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

  Mason Cooley

  Painting, Daily Life, Life Is

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• Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders.

  Geert Wilders

  Borders, Want, You Like It

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Vacation, Anticipation, Periods

  Source: time.com

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• I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. I think it's some kind of muscle memory that brings me back to when I was 14. It makes me bounce around the gym quite happily.

  Lara Stone

  Song, Memories, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks of theology.) This is often associated with Arminian theology stemming from the great Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. However, the view was taken up by [Jonathan] Edwards's disciples in New England, who developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Taken, Views, Example

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Dog, Superstar, Dance Music

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Thinking, Light, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was on the pom pom team, I was on the cheerleading team, I sang. I played football with the guys 'cause I didn't know how to play double dutch. Anything to get out the house.

  Dreezy

  Football, Cheerleading, Team

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

  Kina Grannis

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• 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

  Father, Names, Netherlands

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• Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm,
  I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms.
  You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.

  Sean Price

  Mom, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: King Kong

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• We address the problems of so many Dutch citizens that are afraid to go out in their neighbourhoods after 10pm, who are afraid to send their children to school because of all the harassment they get from this parallel Islamic society. And people are not extreme in Holland.

  Geert Wilders

  Children, Islamic, School

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

  Amy Chua

  Tolerance, Innovation, Enlightenment

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• The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Practice, Euthanasia, Islamists

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• In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Home, Judging, Safe

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Government, Should Have

  "Sarah Palin On Oil Spill: Send In Dutch Dike Builders" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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