California Quotes · Page 17

I spend a lot of time in London and I miss California. Of course, when I'm in California I miss London.

— Hope Sandoval

Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

— James Surowiecki

When I came to California, the first four parts I did were Stanford students. I think I should get an honorary degree…

— Nicholas Hammond

I can't root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting…

— Timothy Olyphant

Whether they're for good or bad, all trends in the United States start in California.

— Steve Schmidt

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great…

— Joaquin Miller

If I've learned one thing as a state leader, it's that California will never fulfill its truest potential if we wait for…

— Kevin de Leon

I actually threw rocks at a train and in California, that's a felony. I went and did ten days in juvenile hall.

— Frank Shamrock

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates…

— Conan O'Brien

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look…

— Vince Staples

I bet there ain't anybody in South Africa wearing a button saying 'Free Compton' or 'California.' They don't give a damn about…

— Eazy-E

I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make…

— Mare Winningham

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as…

— Martin Jacques

I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,…

— Kevin Starr

A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on…

— David Letterman

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in…

— Gretel Ehrlich

There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor…

— James Garner

“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the…

— Christopher Isherwood

I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me.…

— Karch Kiraly

This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it…

— Dalia Mogahed

The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such…

— Marianne Williamson

We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In…

— George Zimmer

I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

— Kent McCord

Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.

— Kevin de Leon

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'

— Don Felder

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows…

— Gabriella Wilson

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

— Rita Mae Brown

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot…

— Zeljko Ivanek

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to…

— Kevin James

If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight…

— Argus Hamilton

The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to…

— Natalie Massenet

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they…

— Kathryn Stockett

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think…

— Paul Beatty

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

— Shelley Berman

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

— James Bryce

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

— Meg Whitman

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

— Don DeLillo