27 Finland Quotes for You to Enjoy

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. Noam Chomsky

Education Achievement Free Country Rich France Consistently Ranks Finland Highest Educational Germany Among

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often. Christopher Lee

Love You Peace Drive Country Single Once Favourite Seeing Something Point Finland Hours Because Without Single Person Very Quiet Person Get Often Certain Certain Point Peace And Quiet

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. Tarja Halonen

Creative Learning Women Opportunity Thrive Only Potential Finland Counterparts Male Common Century Use Full Guaranteed

Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations. Bari Weiss

Man Vote Women Smart Before Innovations States Abolition Borrowed Give Finland Beat New Well Isle Got Egalitarian New Zealand Decided Us Zealand United Eventually United States Slavery Britain

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever. Floor Jansen

Time Me People Whatever Living Netherlands Having Finland Never Knew Know Singer Around Am Really Used Who Cared

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. Harri Holkeri

War Time History You Every Every Time States Independent Civil Civil War Finland Had Almost Like Look Years Years Ago Ireland Than Just Nations The History Of Newly Less Even United United States Present

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden. Harri Holkeri

Life Water Living Everybody More More And More Finland Countries Like Protecting Becoming Baltic Shore Polluted Sweden Sea Near

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. Laurie Helgoe

Silence Privacy Culture Communication Value Values Style Unlike Say Those Characteristic East East Asia Direct Restraint More Finland Individualism Noisy Qualities Dominant Germany America Which Asia Fast-Paced Societies Associated

The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. Martti Ahtisaari

Peace Rest Country Lost City Born Attacked Finland Part Along Fellow Became Still Years Person Soviet Soviet Union Childhood Eternally Then Union Displaced Found Mediator Origins Career

Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate? Mehdi Hasan

Together Insanity Economics Single National Thinking Other Earth Rate Diverse Finland Could Exchange Exchange Rate Economies Sheer How Were Ireland Greece Germany Than Yoke Anyone Anything Interest Euro Grasp Believed Start

To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age. Michelle Paver

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak. Nico Rosberg

Great Me People Speak Language Adopted Finland Also Because Dad

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland. Renny Harlin

Every See Finland Could Movie Loved Movies

The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K. Rex Tillerson

My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party. Sarah Rafferty

Husband Party Every Finland Throw Often

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland. Valtteri Bottas

Mechanic Car Changing Finland Studied Plan Servicing

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. Ville Valo

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