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Quotes About Norwegian

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
~ Roald Dahl
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
~ Roald Dahl
Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.
~ Michael Booth
Norwegian Ridgeback
~ Unknown
The Sushi Warehouse in Roissy 2E offered an exceptional range of Norwegian mineral waters.
~ Michel Houellebecq
And she felt a real sense of loss. Even though she knew she had never had an accent. It was the birthmark, which in its density had lent color even to her voice. She didn't miss the birthmark, but she missed her Norwegian heritage, like learning of new relatives, only to discover they have just died.
~ Miranda July
My mother's soul was still Norwegian in a way that mine was not.
~ Nicola Griffith
the amateurs, who had come out to see what was doing in the Crimea, as they went other years to Norwegian fishing or Baden roulette, were scattered about in yachting costume, and stirred to a little excitement as the Russian shells began to burst among us, and the bombs to fall with thuds loud enough to startle the strongest nerves.
~ Ouida
Passare dal norvegese al russo è cambiare mondo (...); trionfano le i, frequenti e variegate come le betulle.
~ Unknown
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
~ Peter Agre