I am a Romanian composer, and I have a feeling of force and confidence, one of a noble ideal, when what I write harmonizes at all with the works of the great Romanian creators.

classic quote by Theodor Grigoriu
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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.

quote by Traian Basescu
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Among so many messianic opportunisms, hope remains the basic job of the Romanian people.

Costel Zăgan in Inventeme
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

quote by Herbie Mann
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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 Roumania.

poem by Dorothy Parker
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Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

quote by Traian Basescu
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Childhood forest

Childhood forest
full of twigs;
me of wrinkles

(translated from romanian)

poem by Ion Untaru
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Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

quote by Kelly Miller
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Since the blood of the country is eternal and immortal, and because in the same royal artery blows Trajan's triumphal march and in order to be, like him, again and always the first of the human race, I proclaim myself Salvador Dalí, catholic, apostolic, Roman and Romanian.

Salvador Dali in Oui! à la Roumanie (January 1972), translated by Dan Costinaş
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Trying To Avoid

trying to avoid his destiny
the man is running
before him

(translated from romanian)

poem by Ion Untaru
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Mihai Eminescu is the absolute melancholy of Romanian people, in universal tender expansion.

Costel Zăgan in Heretical definitions
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

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

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

quote by Rhona Mitra
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The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

quote by Herbie Mann
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Ceausescu's Children 1996

Out of the manholes they crawl
to face another hopeless day.
Not rats or cockroaches,
but Romania's children.
Selling their miserable bodies
for food, or glue.

Food barely sustains, but sniffing
glue anaesthetises their misery.
Children of Romania, raped,
abused, diseased and forgotten.

Alina, just sixteen was heard to say.
'I wan't to die'
Why not?
She's only just alive.

poem by Jerry Hughes
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

quote by Carly Patterson
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That charming and lovable German princess and poet, Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania, remembers yet that the flowers of the woods and fields "talked to her" when she was a girl, and she sets it down in her latest book; and that the squirrels conferred upon her and her father the valued compliment of not being afraid of them; and "once one of them, holding a nut between its sharp little teeth, ran right up against my father"--it has the very note of "He came right to me and let me pat him on the head"-- "and when it saw itself reflected in his boot it was very much surprised, and stopped for a long time to contemplate itself in the polished leather"--then it went its way.

Mark Twain in Does The Race Of Man Love A Lord?
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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.

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

quote by Traian Basescu
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