California Quotes · Page 28

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history…

— Kevin Starr

Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.

— Dorothy B. Hughes

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

— Gail Collins

When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which…

— Olivia Newton-John

“Sailors approaching the coast in a fog can recognize the Santa Barbara Channel by the smell of bitumen which floats on the…

— Caroline C. Leighton

I went to Albuquerque, I went to Denver, to Arizona, to California, a lot of different places to learn. I'm always trying…

— Brandon Moreno

California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.

— Jon Pardi

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in…

— Jim DeMint

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long…

— Nicolas Cage

Well Belmont is the kind of track where we've had a lot of success, as have a lot of people in California,…

— Bob Baffert

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California.…

— Issa Rae

I tried to swim as much as possible. Being in Southern California in the summer time, it's so nice because you have…

— Klay Thompson

I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented…

— Ashley Kahn

Did you hear about this 20-year-old kid named John Walker from Northern California who was apparently fighting for the Taliban?... It didn't…

— Jay Leno

I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I…

— Dalia Mogahed

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that…

— Thuy Trang

I just want people in America to know that Oklahoma is a great place to live. You know, just like states have…

— Mary Fallin

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker.…

— Barbara Palvin

“What’s California like?” Jared asked after another minute’s silence. “Warm, very sunny,” Catherine replied. “They’ve got almost everything they need there. They…

— Robert Edward

Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the…

— Rick Remender

Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other…

— Charles Francis Richter

California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo…

— Michiko Kakutani

California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder.

— Kali Uchis

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

— Vanessa Marcil

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

— Tom Hayden

“The only way we know summer is coming is by the more chilling winds, the increased dust, the tawny color of the…

— Caroline C. Leighton

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded…

— David Swanson

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

— Meghan Markle

I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you…

— Pat Paulsen

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…

— Garry Winogrand

The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'

— Craig Ferguson

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a…

— Dan Rather

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

— Jason Dolley

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I…

— Craig Kilborn

Our state is known for standing on the right side of history and for our bold leadership on policies that strengthen California…

— Laphonza Butler

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on…

— Ronald Reagan

When we see some of these pieces of legislation that want to eliminate single-family zoning in California, that's wrong.

— Kevin Faulconer