California Quotes · Page 69

Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people…

— Louis C. K

California's university system is one of the premier higher education systems in the world, and we should require that non-resident students pay…

— Kevin de Leon

For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it.…

— Patti Stanger

I think my big break was getting out of Richmond, California, alive.

— Salim Akil

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

— Erma Bombeck

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

— Venus Williams

I grew up in Southern California, not too far from Dodger Stadium. And my entire family loves baseball.

— Nolan Arenado

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

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

— Jimmy Carter

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

— Douglass North

When I started competing, supercross was big in Southern California. So for a guy from Las Vegas to make it, that was…

— Carey Hart

When I discovered that hexavalent chromium was causing cancer in the town of Hinkley, California, it led to residents being paid $333m…

— Erin Brockovich

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

— Rand Paul

While no state has more at stake in immigration policy than California, the entire nation stands to benefit from thoughtful immigration reform.

— Alex Padilla

California is a huge state, larger than many countries. Not all regions are the same.

— Michelle Steel

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

— Cormac McCarthy

California Governor Gray Davis visited an elementary school here in Los Angeles where he taught a class. I don't want to say…

— Jay Leno

Actually, the University of California says they may start a marijuana research center. Really? I thought the University of California was a…

— Jay Leno

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued…

— Jason Lee

California is one of the few places where people dress up for Halloween. It's the only day Sinead O'Connor looks normal.

— Soupy Sales

From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page…

— Doug LaMalfa

I went from Lubbock, Texas, to Berkeley, California. That's enough said.

— Davis Webb

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping…

— Boots Riley

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we…

— Tom Brokaw