Top 100 Sweden's Quotes

#1. I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

Gloria Steinem

Sweden's Quotes #3759
#2. I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

George W. Bush

Sweden's Quotes #10188
#3. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

Dick Morris

Sweden's Quotes #17560
#4. Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

Malin Akerman

Sweden's Quotes #28175
#5. We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Sweden's Quotes #31899
#6. Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs, said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister.

Emily Matchar

Sweden's Quotes #40681
#7. In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

Dave Barry

Sweden's Quotes #41565
#8. I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.

Bridget Of Sweden

Sweden's Quotes #46057
#9. You don't take food home from restaurants in Sweden.

Greg Poehler

Sweden's Quotes #54404
#10. Europe is good at many things, which is why we are the largest exporter in the world. Thirty million people in Europe are employed in making our exports of goods and services. Just under 900 thousand of them are in Sweden.

Cecilia Malmstrom

Sweden's Quotes #76457
#11. It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

Mark Rutte

Sweden's Quotes #86856
#12. If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

Hans Vestberg

Sweden's Quotes #97006
#13. In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks.

Michael Booth

Sweden's Quotes #99342
#14. You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

Muhammad Ali

Sweden's Quotes #117159
#15. There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Hector Hugh Munro

Sweden's Quotes #136589
#16. Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries.

Gordon Brown

Sweden's Quotes #147264
#17. One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

John Updike

Sweden's Quotes #148921
#18. 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

Sweden's Quotes #158993
#19. I didn't really watch 'Dallas,' so I wasn't as wowed by the idea of Patrick Duffy as Swedes were 'cause he's, like, the most famous guy in all of Sweden.

Greg Poehler

Sweden's Quotes #164395
#20. 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

Sweden's Quotes #165192
#21. So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.

Ruben Ostlund

Sweden's Quotes #175378
#22. We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Alexander Skarsgard

Sweden's Quotes #182660
#23. I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Jose Gonzalez

Sweden's Quotes #185263
#24. Sweden is a great country. What is not so great is that we have a society that, in a way, says it's great if you don't look right, if you don't look left, if you just look straight forward.

Michael Nyqvist

Sweden's Quotes #188023
#25. I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

Bill Skarsgard

Sweden's Quotes #189112
#26. If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

P. J. O'Rourke

Sweden's Quotes #196714
#27. How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

Anita Ekberg

Sweden's Quotes #197398
#28. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

Noomi Rapace

Sweden's Quotes #197776
#29. I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

Will Ferrell

Sweden's Quotes #200283
#30. The perceived failings of leaders of other neutral or occupied European countries, including France, Spain, Sweden or Norway, or of the countries that fought alongside the Nazis, have not caught the public imagination in the English-speaking world in anything like the same way.

Clare O'Dea

Sweden's Quotes #206849
#31. My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

David Lagercrantz

Sweden's Quotes #215597
#32. Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

Sweden's Quotes #220801
#33. Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Tom Verlaine

Sweden's Quotes #226535
#34. Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'

Bill Skarsgard

Sweden's Quotes #243050
#35. It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren't that many millions of people in all of Sweden.

Gustavo Dudamel

Sweden's Quotes #246274
#36. I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.

Kevin Whately

Sweden's Quotes #261148
#37. I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

Raoul Wallenberg

Sweden's Quotes #266192
#38. This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.

Henning Mankell

Sweden's Quotes #269709
#39. If you don't think you have enough problems, you should acquire a mammal in Sweden just hours before you're about to fly home to the other side of the world, and then insist that the animal must come along in your luggage.

Jonas Jonasson

Sweden's Quotes #288702
#40. People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism. New Zealand is not worried about terrorism. Holland is not worried about terrorism. Why not be a modest little country without all of these enormous ambitions?

Howard Zinn

Sweden's Quotes #289618
#41. I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

Erik Johansson

Sweden's Quotes #292109
#42. The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

Marcus Samuelsson

Sweden's Quotes #292112
#43. What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

Neneh Cherry

Sweden's Quotes #293760
#44. This shall hence become my music.

Charles XII Of Sweden

Sweden's Quotes #295376
#45. Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

Stefan Persson

Sweden's Quotes #307116
#46. Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Marcus Samuelsson

Sweden's Quotes #318409
#47. I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Sweden's Quotes #322674
#48. Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Dave Grohl

Sweden's Quotes #328263
#49. In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Joel Kinnaman

Sweden's Quotes #332472
#50. I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.

Britt Ekland

Sweden's Quotes #340505
#51. Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Sweden's Quotes #347299
#52. I was born, have lived, and will die free.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Sweden's Quotes #352246
#53. People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

Avicii

Sweden's Quotes #358392
#54. Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

Argus Hamilton

Sweden's Quotes #380805
#55. Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

Camilla Lackberg

Sweden's Quotes #435560
#56. There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band called Eggstone, they're really good, and a band called the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, which is excellent.

Nina Persson

Sweden's Quotes #436007
#57. All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.

Joel Kinnaman

Sweden's Quotes #450236
#58. I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

Joel Kinnaman

Sweden's Quotes #453919
#59. Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

Marcus Samuelsson

Sweden's Quotes #513336
#60. When Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner travels to China to play table tennis, he is mobbed when he leaves his hotel as if he were a rock star walking around Manhattan or a soccer star walking around Europe.

George Vecsey

Sweden's Quotes #529787
#61. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Sweden's Quotes #532096
#62. I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.

Alexander Ahndoril

Sweden's Quotes #544320
#63. When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

Teemu Selanne

Sweden's Quotes #546142
#64. There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Sweden's Quotes #553415
#65. In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.

Pablo Francisco

Sweden's Quotes #582600
#66. It wasn't that her dress was revealing, not by current standards, but the fitted bodice and flaring skirt played with a man's imagination in a maddening way. It would be easy access to put her over his knee, flip up the skirt and warm her luscious ass with the palm of his hand.

Sweden Reese

Sweden's Quotes #597793
#67. It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

Mats Sundin

Sweden's Quotes #651118
#68. I'm from Sweden, so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.

Lykke Li

Sweden's Quotes #706254
#69. You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

Nick Clegg

Sweden's Quotes #751568
#70. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Steen Langstrup

Sweden's Quotes #764174
#71. I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun

Sweden's Quotes #877751
#72. I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

George Blagden

Sweden's Quotes #901278
#73. Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Theodore Bikel

Sweden's Quotes #907478
#74. There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

Bridget Of Sweden

Sweden's Quotes #937350
#75. You have to risk your heart to find love. It's the price we pay for a chance at bliss.

Sweden Reese

Sweden's Quotes #955403
#76. There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Sweden's Quotes #967188
#77. Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

Henning Mankell

Sweden's Quotes #969919
#78. 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

Sweden's Quotes #984252
#79. I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

Malin Akerman

Sweden's Quotes #992721
#80. I heard the rumours,but the only blond people here [in Sweden] are the guys. And they all look like Ellen DeGeneres. It's Ellen DeGeneres world, and it's all guys! It's now switched.

Pablo Francisco

Sweden's Quotes #1018976
#81. I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can't have with the American version.

Michael Nyqvist

Sweden's Quotes #1019792
#82. I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.

Jose Gonzalez

Sweden's Quotes #1034801
#83. You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Izabella Scorupco

Sweden's Quotes #1092476
#84. It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.

Saku Koivu

Sweden's Quotes #1120227
#85. The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.

Asa Larsson

Sweden's Quotes #1152630
#86. I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.

Erland Josephson

Sweden's Quotes #1155781
#87. International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

Niklas Zennstrom

Sweden's Quotes #1225654
#88. If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Morrissey

Sweden's Quotes #1253698
#89. A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'

Caroline Winberg

Sweden's Quotes #1292640
#90. Mary is the lily in God's garden.

Bridget Of Sweden

Sweden's Quotes #1293814
#91. In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

Noomi Rapace

Sweden's Quotes #1324694
#92. When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Jim Gaffigan

Sweden's Quotes #1404416
#93. It's just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.

Charlotte Eriksson

Sweden's Quotes #1628026
#94. Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example.

Osama Bin Laden

Sweden's Quotes #1659938
#95. We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

Wolfgang Schauble

Sweden's Quotes #1730250
#96. If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.

Alex Shoumatoff

Sweden's Quotes #1750991
#97. There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

Alexander Skarsgard

Sweden's Quotes #1805222
#98. America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

Matt Groening

Sweden's Quotes #1812695
#99. There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.

Tinie Tempah

Sweden's Quotes #1872187
#100. When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,
I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

Charlotte Eriksson

Sweden's Quotes #1878257

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