Top 80 Denmark Quotes

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I’ve ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

Well, what I can say about Denmark… Every law firm in town has some business with Danske Bank.

In Denmark, you have thirteen or more political parties, so it’s not too difficult to find a party who reflect your views.

I’ve never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn’t.

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say ‘It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.’

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

My wife and I have already set up a charity back in Denmark – Fodbold Fonden – and now, through Common Goal, I have a great opportunity to give back in other areas of the world as well.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark – ask any player about when they’ve had a bad game, it’s still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

No matter how far I travel from Denmark, I still miss the food, so ScandiKitchen in Great Titchfield Street in central London is an essential part of my life.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

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.

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

As far as money goes, there’s a saying in Denmark: ‘Your last suit doesn’t have any pockets.’ You can’t take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

Strong female leads make more of an impact in the U.K. than in Denmark.

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.

Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to it.

In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.

In Denmark, you are sure to play if you were good, but Ajax played you if you did not have the mentality and went 100 percent to it.

It was a bit of a shock playing against Millwall. I knew the reputation of English football was tough, but my first thoughts when we started were, ‘Wow, this is different to Denmark.’ They kicked a little more and made crazy tackles, but I wasn’t injured when I returned to Denmark, so I guess I did OK.

I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis Borges, I found a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark – perfect strangers – whom I connected to online and immediately became enthralled by the idea of virtual communities.

Tina Fey’s autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It’s her life story: it’s about how she grows up in New York. There’s no obvious reason why I should enjoy this – I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I’m a guy from a small town in Denmark.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

In England, you can’t enter the training ground without permission, whereas in Denmark, you are free to go in.

Denmark is like a big family of people.

I first got online in the late ’80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. I was a reader, into Jorge Luis Borges, and I found, connected to, and delighted in a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark, that I met online.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That’s basically what we have been doing. We’re just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.

I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad’s old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.

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.

When I go to small races in Denmark, it’s what I imagined what F1 would have been like back in the 60s and 70s. After the 70s it became a bit different. But 50s and 60s at least, people were only there because they love it.

I’ve got an England shirt hung up in my house from when I was an unused sub against Denmark. I cherish that.

We had a comic book in Denmark called ‘Valhalla,’ and I read it every time I had the chance. So I remembered the authentic stories from that comic book – Thor and Odin and Freya, I know all those stories.

In Denmark we’re so privileged. You get money to study, you get money if you’re sick and you get money if your hand hurts. It’s hard to be critical of people who are sick getting money, but in Denmark everyone gets money thrown at them and it makes them lazy.

I’d rather be voted ‘the sexiest man in Denmark’ than ‘the ugliest man in Denmark’.

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world – demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.

I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren’t true, and ‘Queen of Denmark’ gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

Texas is more laid back, like Denmark is. So it was easier to adjust to that than to Los Angeles or New York for me.

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 do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don’t think about it, of course, when I am writing.

Denmark and Estonia both refused to prosecute the Danske Bank case when we filed in 2013.

I’m actually called Bang, a quite common name in Denmark where I’m from, so it’s not like me trying to come up with a very stupid name for people to remember me or something.

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write – with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it’s Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

It’s a good place for me, Wembley. In 1983, I played for Denmark when we beat England there 1-0, and in 1992, I played for Barcelona when we beat Sampdoria 1-0 in the Champions League final.

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend’s a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

I pay my tax in the belief that you pay yours. I pay for your doctor’s visit, in the belief that you pay for mine. In Denmark we don’t have gold mines, but we have something more important. We have trust in one another.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark’s largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark’s GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.

We were in love with ‘Mean Streets’ and ‘Taxi Driver.’ We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.

When I talk about democratic socialist, I’m not looking at Venezuela. I’m not looking at Cuba. I’m looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.

In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark’s top 20 surnames ends in ‘-sen,’ meaning ‘son of,’ a pattern that is replicated across Scandinavia. British surnames have never favoured such neatness, and we can be grateful for that.

At Euro ’92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

The truth is that the United States doesn’t need, and shouldn’t have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.

We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.

I like it in Denmark. The league is very good and all the teams are of a similar standard.

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.

I’m a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don’t want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make… of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We’ve been inundated with their telly recently, and I’ve never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living there for a bit if I could take a month off. They just seem like upfront, friendly folk.

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world’s most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

There’s a lot of anger in ‘Queen of Denmark,’ and that’s me getting political.

Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

Private schools cannot be the answer to nation’s needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.

If ‘Queen Of Denmark’ was about my childhood, then ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

I had four seasons with Brondby in Denmark and they were crucial, mentally. The first two seasons there, I score nine goals, then nine goals. Then we get a new coach, Alexander Zorniger. A German guy. The next two seasons, I score 20 then 17.

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.

I think, in Denmark, we are quite good when it comes to the environment.

Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

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.

I remember a festival we did in Denmark with the Clapton band where you suddenly realize it’s an actual band – and you’re on an equal stage playing music together.