California Quotes
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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 -
California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
Morris Chestnut
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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 -
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.
Hillary Clinton -
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
Gertrude Atherton -
There was an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here in California we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.
Eleanor Antin -
California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.
Bill Clinton -
California is being overrun by rodents, without immediate emergency action by state and local government, we face significant economic costs and risk a public health crisis.
Carl DeMaio
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As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
Jimmy Gomez -
California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.
Jon Pardi -
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
John Muir -
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'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Hopper -
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Joseph Barbera
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And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.
Mike Curb -
Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'
Geoff Dyer -
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later
Michael Medved -
I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.
Troy Polamalu -
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.
Joan Didion -
California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.
David Swanson
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The thing I keep hearing from folks is that they can’t afford to live in California anymore and they cannot stomach living in California anymore.
Carl DeMaio -
In hockey, it was a freak show. I'm the son of actors and from California, and in Canada, hockey is a religion, so me coming in, it was like, 'Who the hell is this guy?' I just had to put my head down and work really hard, and it was difficult, but it made me who I am and gave me a backbone.
Wyatt Russell -
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 -
I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
Jennifer Aniston