Quotes About Finland

Kuka täällä ryssää puhuu? – Koskela Suomesta. Syö rautaa ja paskantaa kettinkiä.

We forget that even worse choices than those have confronted us in the past—like sending billions of dollars of aid to Joseph Stalin to stop Adolf Hitler, just a few years after the former had slaughtered or starved to death twenty million Soviets, invaded hapless Finland, carved up Poland with Hitler, and sent strategic materials daily to the Third Reich as it firebombed London.

I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

Finns love if their athletes do well, then they support.

The Finns also have a rather lovely word for the aurora borealis: revontulet, which translates as 'foxfire'. The origins are supposedly in a Finnish fable, in which an Arctic fox, running through snow, sprayed up crystals with his tail, causing sparks to fly off into the night sky.

I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.

He's from Finland," Alice explained. "That means your father has gone to Helsinki, Jack.

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!

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

For the first time since 1815, Russia was denied control of the Polish capital. It was a signal triumph for the Central Powers. The Germans now set their long-term sights on Finland, Russia's province since the Swedes had been driven out in 1808.

After the armistice, Finland, having failed to gain useful help from Britain and France, turned to Germany for assistance in rearming its forces, which Hitler was happy to provide.

Though these had been used earlier in the Spanish Civil War, it was in Finland that the soubriquet "Molotov breadbasket," then "Molotov cocktail," first entered the military lexicon.

Now is probably a good time to make my confession about Finland, our next destination in this Nordic odyssey: I think the Finns are fantastic. I can't get enough of them. I would be perfectly happy for the Finns to rule the world. They get my vote, they've won my heart. If you ask me, they should just change the word 'fantastic' to 'Finntastic.' Helsinki? Heavensinki, more like.

Na pewno du?? rolÄ™ odgrywaÅ'o to, ?e jego mama pochodziÅ'a z Finlandii. ByÅ'a to zawsze milczÄ…ca kobieta z ciemi??onego narodu wyniszczonego zarówno wojnÄ… domowÄ…, WojnÄ… ZimowÄ… i dalszym ciÄ…giem walk, podczas gdy tÅ'usty zachodni sÄ…siad - Szwecja - wzbogaciÅ' siÄ™, sprzedajÄ…c Niemcom rudÄ™ ?elaza.