California Quotes

Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

We give tremendous amounts of money to California - California in many ways is out of control.

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

My home address is a small apartment in Fair Oaks, California but I'm here in Ho Chi Minh City right now staying in a rented room and this is where I spend a good part of every year.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

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.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here meeting with studios and auditioning.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

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

When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

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

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

I'm a typical California boy.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

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

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

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

California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.