Netherlands famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
-- Donella Meadows -
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.
-- John Entwistle -
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
-- John Lothrop Motley -
[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ...
-- Mary Mapes Dodge -
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
-- Poppy Z. Brite -
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.
-- Samuel Eliot Morison -
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
