Dutch Culture Quotes

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

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.

The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.

I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once they realize this, many stop using this character, but those who continue are either in denial, insensitive or actually racists.

My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

When I lived in Holland, it was a lot of television, watching Netflix all the time. You eat at 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, you are finished at 8, and then you go lay down. You rest. That's what I did in Holland.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.

Freeing women and giving them a chance at life is not imposing Dutch values on foreigners.

Each and every Dutchman has his own manner of thinking, his own manners and habits, usage and speech.

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.

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

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

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

The Batave is much more Dutch than the Englander is English, the Frenchman is French or any other people of the world is anything. It is not exactly their patriotism which gives the Bataves the quality of eternal fixity of character, but rather their land, their climate, their whole manner of being and living, all of which resemble nothing else that can be seen on the face if the earth.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

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

I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music.

I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.