California Quotes

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California. — Eric Burdon

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California. — Jennifer Aniston

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Off to California in that tired old VW with the disintegrating fuel pump like a family of dustbowl Okies? — Stephen King

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. — Natalie Massenet

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union. — Rose Bird

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. — Dave Foley

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California. — Jussie Smollett

If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California — Argus Hamilton

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago. — Sue Monk Kidd

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space. — Henry Hopper

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education. — Sally Kirkland

Hate California
it's cold and it's damp. — Lorenz Hart

There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California. — Roberto Bolano

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft — Mary Schmich

The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry. — Dan Jenkins

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. — Don DeLillo

This the kind of world, if you don't die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes. — J. California Cooper

I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Irrigation is the biggest, most urgent, most vital problem in California today. — Ruth Comfort Mitchell

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death. — W.C. Fields

I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell. — Bob Hope

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels. — Jerry Brown

The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired. — Rod Carew

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. — Paul Mazursky

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot. — Ali MacGraw

Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska. — John Green

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C. — Antonio Villaraigosa

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. — Jimmy Carter

What's right for New York or California, is not necessarily right for Iowa. — Joni Ernst

Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. — Jack Paar

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie. — Robert Kennedy

A study conducted in a managed-care medical group in California found that 70% of hysterectomies were inappropriate (Broder et al, 2000). — Thomas Bodenheimer

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. — Bryan Greenberg

Welcome to Anaheim, California, my fellow broken-down, washed-up wrestler. — Mick Foley

California is a great place to live if you're an orange. — Fred Allen

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year. — Gail Collins

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all. — Gertrude Atherton

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw. — Stuart Rothenberg

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher

What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations. — Maureen Lipman

They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses. — Dan Quisenberry

Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married. — Samantha Ronson

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts. — Dennis Franz

All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW — Michelle Warren

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. — Douglass North

You haven't lived until you've died in California — Mort Sahl

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. — Craig Ferguson

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place. — Scott Speedman

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south. — Thomas Mars

Don't bury it, use it. Don't keep it in, give it away. Don't turn that love in, turn that love out. — J. California Cooper

Highway 1 could be today's Route 66 with a view. — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

California: The west coast of Iowa. — Joan Didion

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage. — Cher

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast. — Colin Farrell

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off. — Edan Lepucki

Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song! — Becky G

How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwiches. "Don't they drive everywhere? — Elizabeth Strout

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky. — Krista Allen

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport. — Anna Quindlen

I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California. — Erin Wasson

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. — Sara Zarr

A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?' — Chad Michael Murray

In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me. — Jeff Gordon

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan. — Jennifer Granholm

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods. — Tracy Chapman

In California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs. — Rumer Godden

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home. — Christina Milian

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world. — Al Jardine

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all! — J. California Cooper

I grew up
where the family of butterflies
the Silver Cloud
is native. — Diane Wakoski

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants. — Kenneth Lay

The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel — Dianne Harman

Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers. — Cory Doctorow

If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England. — Tracy Chevalier

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California. — Susan Straight

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. — Glenn Frey

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system. — Ken Robinson

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish. — Cheech Marin

I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes. — Tasha Smith

It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger. — Jack Paar

Unfortunately ... I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before ... I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one. — Timothy Pina

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California. — Matt LeBlanc

To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel's wings with bated breath. — Ace Antonio Hall

Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. — Rick Riordan

We never really wanted to play in California. — Santiago Durango

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British. — Rod Stewart

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days. — Ashley Wagner

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union. — Bill O'Reilly

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. — Isabel Allende

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California. — Ronald Reagan

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California. — Michael Trevino

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio. — Hillary Clinton

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. — Robert Louis Stevenson

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. — Armie Hammer

Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown. — Jared Farmer

Hey boys, come up here!" Lee's excited shout bounced from rock to rock down the gulch. "I've got all of California right here in this pan! — Phyllis Flanders Dorset

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California. — Brian Bosworth

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. — Mitch Kapor