Nordic Countries Quotes

I think one big reason why Sweden might have a good reputation around the world is that if you look at Norway or Denmark or Finland, any of the Scandinavian countries, they all seem less interested in being a part of the larger world, where Sweden has always tried to reach out, whether it's with Volvos, Saabs, H&Ms, music, clothes.

I'm actually in love with all of Scandinavia.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

You'll find Swedes - maybe not as much as the Finns - thriving in melancholy.

In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.

Here in Sweden and the Nordic countries, we have come a relatively long way when it comes to LGBTQI rights. But what we see as self-evident or at least would like to believe is self-evident - is unthinkable in other parts of the world.

America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

It's not lost on me that I'm a Swedish guy from one of the coldest countries in the world.

I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We've been inundated with their telly recently, and I've never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living there for a bit if I could take a month off. They just seem like upfront, friendly folk.

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working.