Quotes About Romania

#1. Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, Hungary still cannot easily escape its past: - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#2. Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#3. To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#4. Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#5. Nothing is ours really, not even our own souls! - Author: Marie Of Romania

#6. Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Author: Traian Basescu

#7. Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe. - Author: Joe Biden

#8. Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape. - Author: Libba Bray

#9. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania. - Author: Dorothy Parker

#10. The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.' - Author: Octavian Paler

#11. There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout. - Author: Traian Basescu

#12. Romania are more Portuguese than German. - Author: Barry Venison

#13. I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it. - Author: Bela Karolyi

#14. My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. - Author: Herbie Mann

#15. In much knowledge there is also much grief. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#16. The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. - Author: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#17. Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. - Author: Traian Basescu

#18. Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#19. In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature. - Author: Dumitru Tepeneag

#20. Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#21. What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! - Author: Marie Of Romania

#22. I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95. - Author: Sebastian Stan

#23. Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way. - Author: Jacques Chirac

#24. Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#25. I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?' - Author: Sebastian Stan

#26. Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens. - Author: Traian Basescu

#27. Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential. - Author: Victor Ponta

#28. In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized. - Author: Victor Ponta

#29. I could ask him anything, and six seconds would pass, and then he would give me a perfect answer, gruffly, almost a growl. He was born in Romania, in a house where, according to him, the geese looked in the windows. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#30. Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms. - Author: Victor Ponta

#31. We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. - Author: Traian Basescu

#32. In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics. - Author: Dominique Moceanu

#33. We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#34. As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French in 1984. It was only years later, in Romania, that I was able to publish the book as I wrote it. - Author: Dumitru Tepeneag

#35. My love for my country is my religion. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#36. I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future. - Author: Victor Ponta

#37. It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders. - Author: Jaycie Phelps

#38. First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine. - Author: Nostradamus

#39. Unlike the Jukel, he had not been raised among the Tigani (Gypsies who inhabited eastern Romania). Revered, protected, and educated. He had been born in the wild. The offspring of a werewolf to werewolf mating. A Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf). - Author: Shirley A. Martin

#40. In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you. - Author: Nicu Vlad

#41. Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now. - Author: Carly Patterson

#42. Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. - Author: Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#43. Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#44. We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird. - Author: Seth Rogen

#45. The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule. - Author: Christopher Lee

#46. Nothing's far when one wants to get there ... - Author: Marie Of Romania

#47. Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A. - Author: Philip Kaufman

#48. The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue. - Author: Traian Basescu

#49. One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. - Author: Nadia Comaneci

#50. The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners. - Author: James A. Winnefeld Jr.

#51. In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally. - Author: Joe Biden

#52. Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area. - Author: Victor Ponta

#53. More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people. - Author: Traian Basescu

#54. I assure Romanians that once I return ... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to ... integrate into the civilized world. - Author: Traian Basescu

#55. For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free. - Author: Dominique Moceanu

#56. The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. - Author: John Mica

#57. New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically. - Author: Andrei Codrescu

#58. Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law. - Author: Brigitte Bardot

#59. Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. - Author: Kiefer Sutherland

#60. When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. - Author: Traian Basescu

#61. I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe. - Author: Marie Of Romania

#62. There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory. - Author: Victor Ponta

#63. I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians. - Author: Traian Basescu

#64. Are all ends of life so sad? - Author: Marie Of Romania

#65. Where are we going? You never told me."
"My home in Romania."
Wow, this guy wasn't kidding with his Dracula fixation. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#66. When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. - Author: Rhona Mitra

#67. I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. - Author: Nicolas Cage

#68. My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States. - Author: Andrei Codrescu