California Quotes
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There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.
Alex Pettyfer
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It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and might have gone back. Then I discovered surfing. It's the California equivalent of ice hockey, I guess. It gave me a real sense of place.
Rachel Morrison
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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.
Eric Burdon
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Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.
Ben Lerner
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Americans are worried about climate change because they can already witness its effects. They see its signature in the drought in California, where record heat has dried the state's fertile soil.
Brian Schatz
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The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.
Nathan Runkle
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
Quentin Crisp
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
Demetri Martin
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We've tried to get as much supply into California as we can.
Kenneth Lay
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On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California.
Chelsea Manning
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I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.
Lois Frankel
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I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.
John Gregory Dunne
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I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
Jennifer Aniston
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California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
Nicolas Berggruen
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California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.
Barack Obama
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The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.
David Swanson
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One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.
Pico Iyer
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When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!
Jonas Mekas
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Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
Catherine Crier
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I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.
Robert Vaughn
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I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
Jasmine Tookes
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So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'
Michelle Malkin
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I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.
Minka Kelly
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Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
Meg Whitman