Finland Quotes

The idea that America is the best place in the world to start out poor, so long as you are willing to work hard, no longer seems to be true. One way of proving that is to ask how accurately your family's income when you were growing up predicted what your own would be. If the American dream were alive, your family's income would not predict your own that well…. Well, on that measure, America is now less the land of opportunity than France, than Germany, than Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The only other rich economy that the U.S. outscores in this respect is — you guessed it — the UK. Abolish the estate tax and America will be a serious contender for the bottom of the opportunity league.

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There's nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

My favourite team was always Barcelona. When I was young, I went to see them, my first ever big game. Jari Litmanen was playing there at the time. In Finland, Litmanen is a big hero for all of us.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

The women of Finland had been enfranchised in 1906, when their country was a rural backwater of Northern Europe and still a dependency of the Czar.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.

In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

Politics can bring a lot of happiness, but you can also experience a lot of unhappiness.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

Finland is no utopia.

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

There are not actually many people in Finland who are openly gay together, let alone two women.

A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?

The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I was always the flamboyant one and the one who wanted to be really bubbly and wanted to perform in a big way, but it's not very typical in Finland.

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.