Top 110 Holland Quotes

I don’t like being on television when I’m playing live. I don’t even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

‘Floating Worlds,’ published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.

My character in ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

I used to play as a striker in Holland. I grew up as a striker. That’s the position I want to play.

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.

If you want to make your mark as a footballer, you think England, Germany, Italy, Spain. Maybe France or Holland. But not China, not the Middle East.

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

I was always a shy little guy and people in Holland are famous for having big mouths! So you’ve got to have a big mouth to defend yourself.

I’m showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we’ll see.

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, ‘I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.’ And it worked.

I’ve been booed in Holland and in Uruguay – as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

I just think we’ve got a really good club life there in Holland with a lot of parties. And I think Dutch people just love to party.

When I was with PSV Eindhoven in Holland, some people still thought Asian players weren’t good enough to play in Europe. It’s always good to rise to the challenge and prove them wrong. When I first came to United, I had to prove my ability again.

I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland – I speak Dutch – for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn’t turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.

Because we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.

Most directors that I’ve worked with – I’ve worked with before, especially in Holland – and they know that I’m somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I’m like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

I appeared three times with Jools Holland on ‘The Tube.’

I’d first come to Chelsea from Kosice and, for me, that was a dream. It’s not easy making that move. I was maybe the first player to come from Slovakia to a club like Chelsea, who normally buy players from Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times – allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 – I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

At Ajax, Juventus, and with Holland, I have played with top teams, and now I want to use my experience to reach the same goal with Fulham.

When India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, I wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from Holland and offered my services for Pakistani nuclear programme.

I’ve only been on MTV once as one of their ‘Closet Classics,’ with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn’t know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it – world beat music.

Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

I learned English at school, or at least that’s how it started. Also, in Holland – as opposed to some other European countries – we don’t dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

I was ready to leave Holland and Serie A is a big step for me.

They do not air ‘GH’ in Holland, so I don’t get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn’t affect things much. It’s a wonderful life and I am so blessed.

I lived in Holland for one year when I was younger and, although they speak Dutch there, I learned a little bit of English while I was there, but really I learned from movies and TV series like ’24’ and ‘Prison Break.’

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English – but English is different from the Scottish language!

Mary Holland is really funny.

Don’t forget I had only played one season at the highest level in Holland when Spurs bought me from AZ Alkmaar.

I’m from Holland, and I’m used to rain.

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion – by wind.

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren’t interested in the sex lives of their players. We don’t hear these stories – even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

I was born and raised in Breda, a small city in Holland. We call it the dance capital of the world.

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

I’ve said in earlier interviews maybe I should have stayed one or two more years in Holland.

All these countries like Holland and Scotland, they create their own problems. They are always complaining, but they don’t solve anything. Don’t look at what you don’t have; look at what you can create.

I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it’s worldwide. You can’t imagine. I mean, I still can’t believe it myself that everything has gone so well.

When I was 14, I started playing in the bigger clubs in Holland and when I was 17, I started playing all of the festivals there.

In Holland, we have a saying: ‘A knife cuts on two sides.’ With the rubber duck, I’m trying to show people what they haven’t been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it’s gone, you know.

I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should’ve stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music – hip-hop, drum’n’bass.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.

The UFC are doing a tremendous job of promoting the sport worldwide. The views about the sport haven’t always been so positive here in the Holland, but it’s nice to see change and to see the UFC come to Holland, and everyone been really enthusiastic about it.

For a 20 year old the gap from Holland to England is massive. That’s a fact. Not all players are able to settle in directly from day one. I remember even Van Persie needed two, three years but he became Van Persie.

Nobody likes me. I know that the Holland boss, Ronald Koeman, appreciates me. But for pundits, TV commentators and in the media, I don’t even exist.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.

In Holland, homosexuality is treated the same way as heterosexuality. In what Islamic country does that happen?

Growing up in the north of Holland, I had a healthy and balanced diet.

The thing I remember most about Tottenham is when Van der Vaart played for them in the Champions League. In Holland, people follow Tottenham Hotspur.