Dutch Quotations

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

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

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.

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.

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

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!

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

The referee has to be careful, so as not to give the Dutch an advantage,

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.

Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

Since the various types of Chinese porcelain were made for specific markets, including Portuguese, Dutch and English, this was reflected in the subjects. A good example would be the pair of pug dogs, popular in England in the 18th century.

My ads are coming from all over the world. And while I don't speak Dutch and my German is pretty bad, the fundamentals are still there.

My favorite saying is that the cup is just the medium for spreading Dutch Love.

He is a good footballer and a winner. He can help bring a team on otherwise he would not be playing for Barcelona and the Dutch national team.

I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

I was discussing this with the Dutch minister yesterday evening and I think we will be able to find a solution.

I was delighted to be invited to the Dutch Consulate in Edinburgh to receive their medal from Michael Hughes, the Dutch Consul.

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

I think we had a very good game, playing on this level equal with the Dutch team. It was a really good match and it could have gone either way.

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

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!

Many Dutch people in the crowd will be excited. It will not put more pressure on me. It will be more fun.

We need the Dutch and the Belgians to come along with us at the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and try and push through the great package of change on debt relief,

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

We'll invite you to our party down at McDonald's. We'll have all the coffee you can drink, but it's a dutch treat. We're not giving it to you.

We have always wanted to fix a meeting and this has been arranged for Friday. Shell have treated the private investor very badly indeed. There are a considerable number of private investors in Royal Dutch Petroleum who have not taken up the offer.

Today, the house reflects a military headquarters, not Dutch family life, ... It is very stark. You can pack quickly and put it on the back of a wagon. The seagrass mats on the floor of the aides-de-camp room became packing material.

We want to keep going. I lived in New York City for awhile, and my idea is to surround New York City and spread some Dutch Love around there.

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

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...

We have shown an interest in him; we have made an inquiry. He has the most incredible scoring record in Dutch football. Many people have described him as a young Alan Shearer, but whether that's true or not I don't know.

The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.

We seem determined to outpace the Scandinavians and the Dutch for social change.

Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.

There is speculation in the market that a Dutch company is selling euros.

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.

What the heck are girls walking around in Dutch outfits selling tulips... what do they have to do with the brand?

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Washington requested the Dutch services to inform them fully, but not to take any action so that they could follow Mr. Khan and try to find out what network was developing. So for quite some time, in fact, it was known.

At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.

And there was nothing happening in Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, Royal Dutch and Shell. If you owned those so-called great companies, you weren't too happy.

Dutch merchants had been holding leading positions in Russia's foreign trade since the 12th century...We have always been amazed at the way Dutch businessmen are doing their business and admired their good sense, honesty, industry and openness,

Dutch Fork likes to make you slow down and play at their pace. We started out tonight with the intention of controlling the tempo and making them play at our pace.

There's no doubt we have a mild case of Dutch disease running in Canada.

I've been a waitress since I was 15 years old. I started at what used to the Dutch Kitchen at the corner of West Grand Avenue and Fourth Street.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market. The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.

Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market, ... The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.

A dutch novel is like a lame coitus

a remarkable man who won a warm place in the hearts of the Dutch people. With his passing, a great man is gone.

As long as these kids grow up not only in an economic underclass but excluded from being French or Dutch it's problematic. When people in my community get angry about American foreign policy they get angry as citizens and they fight back as citizens. The process is more open to including them.

The report ... formally closes the independent investigation of the Dutch authorities into the death of Slobodan Milosevic.

There's a possibility it'll have the same impact or more that Dutch elm disease had on the elms. When it comes, it's a real crusher.

It's partly due to the overload on modern players, ... All the Dutch are playing in the Champions League or in top European leagues. So it's last week Barcelona, this week Dublin, next week Milan. It's just not that exciting.

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

It was a fantastic match, ... Our first goal came after their mistake and that boosted our self-confidence. We knew that if we beat the Dutch we qualify and we went for it.

These trees are still alive. But the Dutch elm disease spreads so quickly. To prevent it from spreading to other trees, they have to be removed.

The Canadian market is strong, but the U.K. market is the No. 1 overseas market. We do around 40,000 British visitors a year. The Dutch market is a growing market, along with the German market. Right now, it's a real bargain to come over here.

The Canadian and Dutch teams have grown up in the past few years and they are here now - they're winning.

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.

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.

In the bigger picture it does not change that much, the Dutch rules are still going to apply. Were we to get a big sell-off you would certainly see Dutch funds coming in and buying the market.

I don't know if I would rather be any place else, ... Fall weather, playing football at Dutch Clark Stadium in the Pigskin Classic; it's what I would imagine heaven being like for me.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

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.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

I cannot confirm that, but you know that Dutch policy is, and will always be, not to pay ransoms when Dutch nationals are abducted.

I came in ready to set the tone, and I really wanted to show (everyone) that our team, with me, could beat Dutch Fork.

For the Dutch people it was a mistake for the coach and that's why the jeering was so loud. I think you could say it was justified.

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

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.