I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home… — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home. — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland. — Too Short Copy Share Image
Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that. — Gary Payton Copy Share Image
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you… — Nick Swisher Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to have the ratchet side because that's a part of me too. I like to turn up, I am… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of… — Kreayshawn Copy Share Image
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Winning in Oakland in '89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that '88 was… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state.… — Randy Hamilton Copy Share Image
In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California. — Lance Gross Copy Share Image
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room… — John Madden Copy Share Image
When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan. — Charles Woodson Copy Share Image
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I played in Oakland, where we relied more on walks and home runs to score. — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
“The university is located between San Francisco, Oakland and my internal wish to kill myself.” — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to… — Chuck Zito Copy Share Image
I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I grew up in Oakland, California, and there was a really active scene in the Bay Area. Everyone else knew it as… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems,… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
“The sudden death of oak trees in where I live in Oakland is like a clear cry naturally emerging from nature, just… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
