Quotes About California

Just before he left Vietnam, Greene had a skirmish with American consular officials obstructing his plans to visit California and New York in February 1952. The McCarran Act of 1950, passed over Harry Truman's veto, attempted to keep people who had been communists or fascists out of the country.

If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay [San Francisco] will be the center of its prosperity.

If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.

Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.

Revolutions are matters of constant occurrence in California. They are got up by men who are at the foot of the ladder and in desperate circumstances, just as a new political party is started by such men in our own country. The only object, of course, is the loaves and fishes; and instead of caucusing, paragraphing, libelling, feasting, promising, and lying, as with us, they take muskets and bayonets, and seizing upon the presidio and custom-house, divide the spoils, and declare a new dynasty.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston...

There is also a thirty-ton monument to him in the "Champions of Justice" Gallery in Oakland, California, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The desert of Central California was in those days a lot like Mongolia.

Who is going to influence whom in the new association? Warren may have entered the ocean in California, but I am sitting down in Virginia with Ben Graham's beginner's book and "How to Read a Financial Report" by someone called Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. I am told I have to finish Ben Graham very soon because Warren is unwilling to pay the small fine involved in having the book out of the Omaha public library too long.

because the California commitment code is designed more for the well-being of lawyers than of patients, it would have been relatively easy for me to talk my way out of an involuntary commitment.

With his capacity for flight came grimmer moods, and the blackness of his depressions filled the air as pervasively as music did in his better periods. Within a year or so of moving to California, my father's moods were further blackening, and I felt helpless to affect them.

Florida is California on a Troma budget. That's what the demon lover thinks, anyway. Special effects blew the budget on bugs and bad weather.

She nodded. "They're counting again in California. Almost a million people voted, and the difference is about five thousand." "So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

Von Henscher said: "What about Japan? Is there any chance the Japs might be persuaded to attack the Panama Canal, or even California?" "Realistically, no," Walter said firmly. The discussion was venturing farther into the land of fantasy. But von Henscher persisted. "Nevertheless, the mere

Listening, I suddenly realized who the man was. This was the legendary leader of the northern California birders, Rich Stallcup, the Pirate of Point Pinos.

Californians spoke derisively of all the exotic birds that had established feral populations in Florida, conveniently ignoring the fact that the Los Angeles basin was also full of escaped parrots and the like.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

What kind of government is this? It's getting more like California all the time.

California is a garden of EdenA paradise to live in or seeBut believe it or notYou won't find it so hotIf you ain't got the do-re-mi

They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.

Pretty good-looking women, in the main, thanks to the California sun.

Beaches are the same the world over. . . . I don't mean to be ironic. California is that way naturally. It's hard to do malice to California.

This is California. You can't have everything.