Top 100 Quotes About Denmark
#1. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#2. A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
Susanne Bier
#4. Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.
Michala Petri
#5. I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.
Carsten Juste
#6. They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten. Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.
Malcolm Gladwell
#8. The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!
Marianne Moore
#9. So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.
Pete Docter
#10. I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
Agnes Obel
#11. Christ, even my staff have noticed that something's rotten in the state of fucking Denmark.
E.L. James
#12. I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.
Judy LaMarsh
#13. And over the following months some of the articles are reprinted in other German papers, and eventually they are translated and printed in Sweden and Denmark and France. One article finds its way into a London paper, printed under the title "Nights at the Circus." It
Erin Morgenstern
#14. Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.
Tobias Lindholm
#15. Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.
Chris Huhne
#16. That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain:
At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:
William Shakespeare
#17. I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.
Simon Kuper
#18. I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.
Enock Maregesi
#19. In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#20. guided towards the writings of a 1930s Danish-Norwegian author, Aksel Sandemose, for a better understanding of how best to 'integrate' into the workplace in Denmark.
Helen Russell
#21. Perhaps it is not the belief of God that makes us happier but belief in something, anything. How else to explain the fact that the happiest countries in the world--Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands--are hardly religious at all?
Eric Weiner
#22. We've been rehearsing a classic from antiquity, Green Eggs and Hamlet, the story of a young prince of Denmark who goes mad, drowns his girlfriend, and in his remorse, forces spoiled breakfast on all whom he meets.
Christopher Moore
#23. My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.
Ruth Rendell
#24. We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
Fredrik Bajer
#25. Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
Maya Lin
#26. Try not to be so happy, mumler Agis, the spice situation in Denmark is a disaster.
Stine Pilgaard
#27. As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
Viggo Mortensen
#28. I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.
Tobias Lindholm
#29. I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
George R R Martin
#31. I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.
Henrik Fisker
#32. The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the North Pole as their own. Hey, you can't just reach out and take something if you want it, Denmark. That's Russia's job.
Craig Ferguson
#34. That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
Ernst Zundel
#35. I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
Annaleigh Ashford
#36. You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
Viggo Mortensen
#37. Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to it.
Tobias Lindholm
#38. first of all she's not my girlfriend second of all denmark is a PRISON
Mallory Ortberg
#39. Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.
J.M. Coetzee
#41. We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
Mads Mikkelsen
#42. She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?
Sage Steadman
#43. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.
William Shakespeare
#44. Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.
Peter Singer
#45. At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
Michel Patini
#46. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
John Evelyn
#48. We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#49. Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.
Jay Leno
#50. I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.
Montel Williams
#51. The history of Denmark has much to teach us all.
Lois Lowry
#52. During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
H.L. Mencken
#53. Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#54. Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The
Frans De Waal
#55. When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
Daniel Kahneman
#56. Every person I've met who has moved to Denmark tells me the same thing. It is close to impossible to penetrate the social circles there.
Meik Wiking
#59. In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#60. I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
Gordon Lightfoot
#61. I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark]
George W. Bush
#62. Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.
Diana Wynne Jones
#63. This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
John Helm
#64. The bigger worry for him is if Danish banks and pension funds lose faith in the peg and start to sell euro assets to hedge their currency risks. "It is more important for Danish authorities to convince people in Denmark that they keep the peg than foreign investors," he says.
Anonymous
#66. The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.
James Surowiecki
#67. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says ... it's payback time!
Jasper Fforde
#68. The European Union's finished. It doesn't work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit.
Nigel Farage
#69. Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.
Bernie Sanders
#70. As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.
Pranab Mukherjee
#71. There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
#72. When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. Now, we are very much like the rest of the world, especially with the arrival of the internet.
Michala Petri
#73. It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people.
Bernie Sanders
#74. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.
William Shakespeare
#75. I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad's old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.
Henrik Fisker
#76. For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
Bjorn Lomborg
#77. I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
Paul Robeson
#78. England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
Mads Mikkelsen
#80. 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?
Eddi Reader
#81. A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.
Bassam Tibi
#82. I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.
Rose George
#83. With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
Larry Holmes
#84. The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott
#85. The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles!
(on England losing to Denmark 4-1)
Alan Hansen
#86. The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.
Shai Agassi
#87. It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.
Lorik Cana
#88. Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy ... The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.
Connie Hedegaard
#89. I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#90. The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
Mads Mikkelsen
#91. What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Lady Gregory
#92. My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
Ted Shackelford
#93. For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#94. The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
Howard Gardner
#95. Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.
Steven Morrissey
#96. Can't you tell from the hair and the cheekbones? Humans don't grow that beautiful. Not outside of Denmark, anyway.
Gail Carriger
#97. (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
Victor Borge
#98. In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
Mads Mikkelsen
#99. Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
Peter Bofinger
#100. When I hear the word 'independent' I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film. Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.
Jim Jarmusch
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