Top Norwegian Quotes
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Peter Agre
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Jon Johansen
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl
I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
James Brown
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Roald Dahl
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Lester B. Pearson
Peter Agre
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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl 
55% of people like this quote
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Peter Agre
54% of people like this quote
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Jon Johansen
52% of people like this quote
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl
51% of people like this quote
I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
James Brown
48% of people like this quote
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Fritz Sauckel
48% of people like this quote
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Gustav Stresemann
46% of people like this quote
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
Roald Dahl
45% of people like this quote