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Quotes About California

Life in California is beautiful.
~ Oscar Nunez
If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that California is its face, New York is its brain and Texas is its heart. If you wanna know what makes America tick, get your ten-gallon hat on, and get yourself to Texas.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
~ Jerry Saltz
In California, the first spring is in November. March only echoes.
~ Jessamyn West
What's the penalty for possessing meth in California?" Winter asked. "A stern talking to?" "Pretty much. If that. It's a misdemeanor. A violation of the Health and Safety Code. There's a fine. You can get up to a year in jail if you did something stupid while you were high, like drove your car over a group of schoolchildren. Something like that might be frowned upon.
~ Andrew Klavan
The task of watering the arid desert between Reagan's ears is a challenging one for his aides." And, continuing with the water imagery, a California legislator said, "You could walk through Ronald Reagan's deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet.
~ Andy Borowitz
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
~ Anita Loos
I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.
~ Christine Feehan
Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I'm headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches - even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.
~ W. Kamau Bell
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.
~ Sam Elliott
Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.
~ John Barrowman
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.
~ Eric Burdon
In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
~ Kamala Harris
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
~ K. Flay
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
~ Peter DeFazio
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
~ George Stoneman
I think California has some very good looking women... I know Stephanie Seymour is from San Diego, and I know Josie Maran - who's my very good friend - she's from Northern California. So I think California produces some good looking women, for sure.
~ Marisa Miller
I grew up in California, I'm a Disney employee, and I have never been to a park, outside of living in one for 107 days. So now I'm on a mission to go for real.
~ Malika Andrews
I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.
~ Sigourney Weaver
There's no way that I could be a congressman in a California district at 32.
~ Mike Espy
In California, we celebrate our diversity. We celebrate who we are because we're proud of who we are; we're proud of where our families come from.
~ Kevin de Leon
One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.
~ Ted Lieu
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
~ Mitch Kapor
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.
~ Kim Gordon