Nordicizing Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty. — Bryant McGill

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West. — Bernard Lagat

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms. — Elizabeth Olsen

the thing we call French culture may be due to the fact that French children can play, surrounded by the things of the past, palaces of bygone kings, statues, remembrances of history. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. — David Brent

The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it. — Neil Patrick Harris

The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock. — Jim Keith

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. — Rosellen Brown

Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric. — Demetri Martin

I'll tell you how the Sun rose. — Emily Dickinson

Film-makers and actors can only show a version of the act, but writers can express what people are thinking, feeling, as well as doing. — Julian Barnes