California Quotes · Page 8

Allowing gay marriages isn't nearly the gayest thing about California.

— Anonymous

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

— Kamala Harris

I'm a California guy, but in my opinion I think Biggie is the best rapper.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

— Paul Prudhomme

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

— Dave Brubeck

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

— John Muir

California always struck me as a police state.

— Leon Russell

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

— Jon Stewart

All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods,…

— Erma Bombeck

A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?

— Craig Ferguson

I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or…

— Katy Tur

We know shark's fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can't buy it or sell it.

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

I've always loved the Belmont Shore area because I've always thought it had a kind of European vibe to it. This to…

— Joe Maddon

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the…

— Warren Beatty

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it…

— Mary Schmich

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

— Al Jardine

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school…

— Christine Taylor

It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they…

— Pete Wilson

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of…

— Alistair Cooke

I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone…

— Roger Housden

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air…

— Hilton Als

I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good…

— Urijah Faber

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings” is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University…

— Sue Johnson

Governor Gray Davis has asked the California state Supreme Court to delay the October recall vote because he says that's not enough…

— Jay Leno

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. [. . .] Only 7% of Americans are hunters.…

— Wayne Pacelle

The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the…

— Sam Shepard

Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter…

— David Remnick

I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way,…

— Heavy D

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly…

— Marc Reisner

California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

— Yi So-Yeon

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

— Ian Harding

We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas

— Red Skelton

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

“I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.”

— Lucille Bluth

“I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.”

— Inez Haynes Irwin

One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

— Ted Lieu