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Quotes About Denmark

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
~ James Broughton
Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.
~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt
In the countries with the best maternal and infant outcomes—the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark—women and babies benefit from lifelong universal healthcare, but that care is markedly different: obstetricians attend only high-risk pregnancies. The vast majority of laboring women get individual support from a midwife, are free to move about and birth in whatever position feels best, and are rarely induced, anesthetized, or cut.
~ Jennifer Block
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
I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
~ Lars Mikkelsen
If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.
~ Bjarke Ingels
My form with Denmark hasn't been too bad. I got off to a very slow start with five goals in my first 50 games.
~ Christian Eriksen
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
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
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
~ Ted Shackelford
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
A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
~ Susanne Bier
I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.
~ Henrik Fisker
Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
~ Lars Mikkelsen
When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.
~ Sidse Babett Knudsen
I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.
~ Pilou Asbaek
We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.
~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt
I'm from Denmark, so I like to support the Danes.
~ Nina Agdal
I think, in Denmark, we are quite good when it comes to the environment.
~ Peter Schmeichel
Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
In Denmark, "social trust"—a general feeling that you trust your fellow citizens and the pillar institutions of government, law courts, police, hospitals, and so on—is generally found to be the highest in the world. A perfect example of Danish "social trust" is the image of babies sleeping in carriages outside a restaurant while the parents eat inside. You might say, "But no one is watching!" A Dane will say, "Everyone is watching.
~ Rick Steves
Denmark was the world's largest exporter of beer in 1972. An illustration showed how Ålborg's infrastructure was likely to look in 1990: subway, a raised monorail around a city that the artist seemed to have modeled on something taken from the Liseberg Amusement Park. Mass transport by helicopter. Winter envied that era's faith in the future.
~ Ã…ke Edwardson
In England, you can't enter the training ground without permission, whereas in Denmark, you are free to go in.
~ Christian Eriksen
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
~ Roger Zelazny