“Kun olet lapsi mene metsään. Sydämesi on kipeä. Mene kasvaaksesi. Se on kylmää kyytiä. Siellä on karhuja ja oksia.” — Miki Liukkonen Copy Share Image
“me rakas opimme edellisten sukupolvien virheistä osasimme tehdä ne samat” — Arno Kotro Copy Share Image
“Ei,” he said, shaking his head. “En puhu suomea.” No, he said in Finnish. I don’t speak Finnish.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Believe yourself in everything that you do,never loose hope,coz the finnish-line must just be laying ahead. — Jamsta E Ngugz Copy Share Image
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Adolf Ivar Arwidsson Copy Share Image
“Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?' 'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers… — Sergey Biryuzov Copy Share Image
“There is an old joke in Finland, a country proud of its collective introspective character and shyness. “How do you know when… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“Mies ja nainen, minne menevät yöksi, missä asennossa he nukkuvat, millainen on lakanoitten tuoksu ja mihin aukeaa ikkuna, kun ulkona tuulee ja… — Joni Pyysalo Copy Share Image
“sinuun on kasvanut uudenlaisia karvoja ja sinuun on ylipäänsä kasvanut karvoja. Poskissasi nukkaa rinnassasi ruskeaa rähmää sinun, minä olen sinun” — Maaria Päivinen Copy Share Image
I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
“Laiva on lastattu kuulla meri on lastattu laivoilla maa on lastattu merellä ja keulaan kiinnitetty. Kuu laskee unien metsät kuu valaa rantojen… — Hannu Kankaanpää Copy Share Image
In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
“Raskas peitto, mutta me haluammekin sellaisia unia, tyyniä ja puuduttavia. Joskus muistaa jonkun hetken joka on tapahtunut, mihin kaikki on mennyt” — Joni Pyysalo Copy Share Image
“ Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda" [modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida] ("I willingly… — Christine Wulff Copy Share Image
Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole… — Pihla Viitala Copy Share Image
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
“Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)” — Tarja Moles Copy Share Image
In Sweden I am considered the Finnish-Norwegian, in Norway Finnish-Swedish, and in Finland Swedish-Norwegian. I've never really belonged anywhere. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
![“Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda" [modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida] ("I willingly want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able") (found in a German travel journal c.1450)” quote by Christine Wulff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50e/christine-wulff-228094_finnish_m-nna-tachton-gernast-spuho-somen-gelen_12051.jpg)
