Finnish Quotes

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. Linus Torvalds

Risks People Edge Live Valley Silicon Silicon Valley Tend Finnish Taking Traditional Very Different Really Different People Companies Many Here

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood. Michael Franti

Myself Son Mother Three Parents White Neighborhood Adopted Finnish Picket She Another Were Up Children African-American Grew

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

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish. Alicia Vikander

Fact Finnish Real Quarter In Fact

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish. Floor Jansen

Good Finnish Never Happened Really Swedish

Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely read Finn abroad. She began her life as an artist early - she had her first drawing published at fifteen. Sheila Heti