Sweden Quotes:

Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.

- Alan Coren

source: "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

topic: Believe, Sweden, Way, Goth, Vandals

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

- Alexander Skarsgard

topic: Clothes, Sweden

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

- Alexander Skarsgard

topic: Sweden, Paparazzi, Following

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

- Avicii

source: "The King of Oontz Oontz Oontz" by Jessica Pressler, www.gq.com. March 29, 2013.

topic: People, Sweden, Conscious

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

- Bill Skarsgard

topic: June, Sweden, January

I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

- Bill Toomey

topic: Athlete, Oil, Sweden, Immune System

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Religion, Sweden

I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Home, Sweden, Los Angeles

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

- Daniel Ek

topic: Sweden, Born, Piracy

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

- Dave Grohl

topic: Rocks, Records, Sweden

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

- David Nicholls

topic: Sweden, Streets

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.

- Dolph Lundgren

topic: School, Kids, Sweden

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.

- Erland Josephson

topic: Real, Sweden, Accepted

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

- Eva Gabrielsson

topic: Sweden, Common

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

- George Papandreou

topic: Growing Up, United States, Sweden

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

- Gianluca Basile

topic: Basketball, World, Sweden, Flukes, Bronze Medal

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

- Goran Persson

topic: Europe, Sweden, Remember

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

- Henning Mankell

topic: People, Sweden, I Smile, Smile More

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

- Izabella Scorupco

topic: Sweden, Abba

I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

- Izabella Scorupco

topic: Eight, Sweden, Born, Bond Movie

We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

- Jack Charlton

topic: Sweden, Likes, Norway, Holland, Belgium

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

- Juliana Hatfield

topic: World, Sweden, Feels

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

- Knut Hamsun

topic: Generations, Sweden, Lasts

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

- Lasse Hallstrom

topic: Different, Sweden, Comedy

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

- Lee Hazlewood

source: "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

topic: Nice, Television, Sweden, Very Nice

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

- Maj Sjowall

topic: Country, Jobs, Sweden, Swedish

Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

- Malin Akerman

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Pride, Sweden

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

- Marcus Samuelsson

topic: Sweden, Tradition, My Favorite, American Tradition

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

- Mats Sundin

topic: Eye, Sweden, Caught

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

- Maud Adams

topic: Actresses, Sweden, Film

My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers. Fortunately, for me personally, that conclusion has had no practical impact, else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honored to receive.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Impact, Awards, Sweden

The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.

- Mona Sahlin

topic: Return, Sweden, Genocide, White Genocide

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

- MyAnna Buring

topic: Jobs, Sweden, Bells

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

- Niklas Zennstrom

topic: Successful, Sweden, Bigger

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

- Noomi Rapace

topic: Perfect, Feelings, Sweden

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

- Raoul Wallenberg

topic: Men, Knowing, Sweden

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

- Stefan Persson

topic: Fashion, Sweden

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

- Steven Morrissey

topic: Identity, Germany, Sweden

There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.

- Tinie Tempah

topic: Girl, Sweden, Want

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

- Wanda Jackson

topic: Firsts, Albums, Sweden

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

- Eliot Paulina Sumner

source: "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Sexy, Sweden, Language

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

- Hannes Holm

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Talking, Sweden, Disease, Finnish, Talking Much

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

- Hannes Holm

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Sweden, Locals

In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.

- Pablo Francisco

source: Source: rocksucker.co.uk

topic: Men, Blonde, Sweden

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

- Christina, Queen of Sweden

source: Maxims (1660 - 80)

topic: Age, Sweden, Indolence

I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

- George Blagden

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Horse, Historical, Sweden

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

- Lykke Li

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Cute, Winter, Sweden

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.

- Sven-Goran Eriksson

topic: Football, Balls, Sweden

I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

- George W. Bush

source: "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

topic: Army, Talking, Sweden

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

- Marina Abramovic

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Cameras, Video, Sweden, Video Cameras

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

- Tom Verlaine

topic: Rocks, Alive, Sweden, Belgium, Copenhagen

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

- John Updike

topic: Country, Sweden, Canada

To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.

- Mats Sundin

topic: Player, Special, Sweden

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

- Julian Assange

source: "Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

topic: Feminism, Arabia, Sweden

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Writing, Leaving, Sweden

Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Years, Guarantees That, Sweden

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

topic: Sweden, Eating, Series

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Sweden, Forbidden

I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls.

- Kid Cudi

source: "The Kid Cudi Interview" by Patrick McGuire, thewamagazine.com. 2009.

topic: Girl, Hot, Sweden, Ugly Women, Hot Girl

Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

- Jane Jacobs

source: Source: aqi.quebec

topic: Levels, Sweden, Canada, Indictment

I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.

- Janet Fitch

source: Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.13, Hachette UK

topic: Wind, Icy, Sweden