California Quotes · Page 26

I do most of my racing here in California now. There's no reason to go anywhere else except for a few of…

— Bob Baffert

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

— Adam McKay

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about…

— Jasmine Tookes

I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.

— Ryan Fleck

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out…

— Herbie Mann

Since the 1970s, California has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the…

— Jerry Brown

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

— Chris Hayes

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved…

— Anna Kendrick

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our…

— Carly Fiorina

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands…

— Jackie Speier

I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose,…

— Vikram Seth

After moving to California, I went on a no-buy streak. I began refusing short plane trips, using public transit or walking whenever…

— Annie Lowrey

Imagine this country without the 20 million illegals that are here. Imagine the state of California. And this is not... It's nothing…

— Rush Limbaugh

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to…

— Toby Jones

I was married to someone who had more money than me, but because I was the stronger earner and we lived in…

— Jeannie Mai

The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no…

— Christine Jennings

Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…

— Thomas Piketty

One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel,…

— Gerald Haslam

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

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort…

— Mark Twain

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government…

— Carly Fiorina

In California, you're on a first-name basis with fruit. You take a beautiful Blenheim, you don't want to mess with it.

— Sherry Yard

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He…

— Mike Huckabee

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and…

— Duncan Hunter

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

— Bo Derek

I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.

— Chris Carmack

Los Angeles was really beautiful, and California in general is a great place to live.

— Lou Barlow

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky…

— Taryn Manning

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

— Dante Basco

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

— Robert Toombs

“It was too late, of course, for California. But California has always been a place where dreams go to live or die.”

— Madeline Ashby

In a day when you can kind of choose where you can play, Northern California is the place for me.

— Joe Thornton

In 1996, I supported and campaigned for California's Proposition 209, which banned racial preferences in public hiring, education and contracting.

— Michelle Steel

I just realized some things make me happier, and the good weather in California makes me happier.

— Bianca Balti

I've been to Florida, Texas and California in the States, but New York is the place I really want to visit.

— Chris Hoy

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

— Jimmy Smits