Finland Quotes

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In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

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

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

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

Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map.

We can't fire our way to Finland.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

I ran for myself, not Finland.

To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology.

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

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)

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

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.

You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team the "Espoo Blues" for nothing.

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can’t see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.