California Quotes · Page 21

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Gertrude Atherton

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California

— Meg Whitman

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

— Troy Aikman

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned…

— Edward Ruscha

California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being…

— Conan O'Brien

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

— Caitlin Flanagan

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's…

— Adam Levine

One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself…

— Rick Tramonto

It seems like we're getting fewer stops in California every year. It's good because we're exposing the sport to other parts of…

— Karch Kiraly

The first case of mad cow disease since 2006 was discovered right here in the United States. The good news, since the…

— Jay Leno

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would…

— Carson Daly

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or…

— Charles Bukowski

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many…

— Frederick Lenz

I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their…

— Rex Smith

I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really…

— Moby

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World…

— Lester R. Brown

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and…

— Gena Rowlands

A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her…

— Anne Rice

I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're…

— Michael Franzese

While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations,…

— Devin Nunes

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new…

— Ben Klassen

We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for…

— Sandra Steingraber

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three,…

— Jenny Zhang

If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and…

— Dick Dale

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

— Pete McCloskey

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most…

— Joan Didion

I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for…

— Benjamin Stone

The attraction and superiorityof California are in its days. Ithas better days & more of them, than any other country.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public…

— Christopher Lee

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

— Deborah Joy Winans

The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.

— Whitney Cummings

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

— Rumer Godden

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

— Greg Gutfeld

As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat…

— Jimmy Gomez

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

— Jack Paar

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

— Kamala Harris

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

— Stanley Ralph Ross

Urban Indian Organizations are a lifeline to Native Americans living in urban areas across California.

— Alex Padilla

As one California winemaker said, "We release no wine before the bank tells us that its ready."

— Kevin Zraly