Quotes About Sweden

Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.

Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden.

Oh Sverige, Sverige du Gamla och Fria Varför dödar dina söner mig?

Men du måste lära dig att utan rättvisa för alla människor i Sverige kan du inte ha fred. Därför måste ni i Sverige bekämpa och slåss mot rasismen. Bevara Sverige blandat för en fredlig framtid för barnen.

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.

In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

I haven't lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where my family's home base has been since 1970. Our parents bought a schoolhouse in preparation for self-sufficient living. They wanted to create a place to do all the things they believed in.

Everyone in Sweden has great hair and teeth and is clean-cut and organised.

There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

Curiously, the Swedes looked for untouched snow, while the Norwegians wanted marked and prepared tracks so that they could race along the valleys and over the plateau. Another difference: Swedes carried equipment to face the elements; the Norwegians put their trust in mobility and light equipment, sometimes with dire consequences.

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.

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

For the Church of Sweden, the Church of England, the German Lutheran Church and many other branches of European Christianity, the message of the religion has become a form of left-wing politics, diversity action and social welfare projects.

As Dr Tino Sanandaji has pointed out, it costs more for 3,000 migrants to be housed in temporary accommodation tents in Sweden than it does to fund outright the largest refugee camp in Jordan (housing around 100,000 Syrian refugees).

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.

You can stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden!

The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means "not too few, not too many, just about right." Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character.

We can learn from all around the world. Germany, particularly, has been successful with rooftop solar generation. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have done work on it. Some of them have done offshore wind projects. So we're looking at learning from the best from all across the world. My approach is to get the best out of each one.

When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are very important.

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

I'm from Sweden, where it's winter, like, half the year. And it's dark - we barely have any daylight.

The Swedish winters and summers hold the most enduring memories for me. Now, when I am back in Stockholm in November, it is difficult to imagine being able to ski to school. I think that is a tragedy.

Swedish winters are not for the faint of heart.