Top 95 Denmark Quotes

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.

The Swedes got there first – their dramas were always the darkest and most upsetting, and we used to love them when I was growing up in Denmark. Now us Danes have caught up.

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.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule… now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

I’m from Denmark, so I like to support the Danes.

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.

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

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.

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there’s a change of guards in Denmark.

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.

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?

Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody’s the boss. In a sense, we’re all equal.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces – the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

Denmark’s fall and winter were really cold and long, actually, but my job often takes me to paradise, so I can’t complain.

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

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.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my ‘hood, and people leave me alone; it’s nice.

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we’ll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

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

I been in Russia, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, London. I’m all over the place being loud.

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

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.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

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.

When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.

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

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.

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.

When we started making ‘Borgen,’ no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of ‘The Killing’ because it’s basically all about Danish politics.

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.

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.

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.

In Denmark, we’re making 20 films a year. If I’m showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

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.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark – that opportunity must be seized.

To be sure, political unions between European countries have often failed in the past, but usually only after relatively brief periods. Denmark and Iceland separated after 130 years; the unions between Spain and Portugal and between Sweden and Norway each lasted less than a century.

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn’t want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

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 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.

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.

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.

Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.

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.

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

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

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.