Top 50 Romania Quotes

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.

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores – its anti-Semitism for example.

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.

I’d been travelling in Romania. It was 1990, just after the revolution and you couldn’t buy anything so we’d been eating basic food. We went to McDonald’s and, I’m ashamed to say, it was wonderful. I hate McDonald’s normally.

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn’t have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they’re drawing close to a floor below which the bank’s reserves can’t drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

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.

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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.

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.

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.’

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

My problem is that I’m negative – I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That’s normal here.

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they’re all working really hard to beat us right now.

It’s never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the ’90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.

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.

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.

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.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.

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.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

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.

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.

It’s like someone important is missing from a party because you can’t imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

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

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania’s future.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn’t allowed, it just wasn’t done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

See, when I went to the Olympics in ’76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, ‘Where’s she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?’

I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

My father’s father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

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.

I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties and borders with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. The Paris Treaty was signed on February 10, 1947. I was born a few days later.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu’s rule.

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.

There’s a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

I received a lot from tennis, so it’s good to help others because it’s very difficult. Many talented kids get lost because they don’t have the money. Tennis is an expensive sport in Romania.

I wasn’t allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

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.

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.

Romania seems to be a very pro-Trump country and a pro-America country, and that’s why it’s a great honor to come visit.

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.