California Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about California
California Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
— Rick Riordan
To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel's wings with bated breath.
— Ace Antonio Hall
In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.
— Robert Kennedy
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
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
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
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
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
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 read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
— Glenn Frey
I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
— Susan Straight
I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.
— Hillary Clinton
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
— Mitch Kapor
I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.
— Brian Bosworth
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
Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown.
— Jared Farmer
I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.
— Antonio Villaraigosa
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We never really wanted to play in California.
— Santiago Durango
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
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 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
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
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.
— Jack Paar
Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.
— Cory Doctorow
Highway 1 could be today's Route 66 with a view.
— Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
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 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
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
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
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
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
I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.
— Colin Farrell
California: The west coast of Iowa.
— Joan Didion
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
I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.
— Scott Speedman
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
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
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
— Douglass North
Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.
— Christina Milian
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
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
— Gail Collins
The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel — Dianne Harman
Blue Coyote Motel — Dianne Harman
The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
— Kenneth Lay
Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
— J. California Cooper
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
If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
— Tracy Chevalier
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
— Carrie Fisher
In California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
— Rumer Godden
California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.
— Jennifer Granholm
What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.
— Maureen Lipman