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Quotes About California

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
~ Jill Scott
I had fallen in love with California.
~ DeForest Kelley
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
~ Penny Marshall
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.
~ Eddie Money
Trader Joe's, a national chain of specialty grocery stores that's huge here in California where I live, started carrying frozen edamame not too long ago and now reports that they sell better than frozen corn. Edamame
~ Jonny Bowden
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
~ Joseph Barbera
States can provide more protection of rights under their constitutions than exists under the U.S. Constitution. To take a simple example, the Supreme Court has held that citizens have no First Amendment right to use privately owned shopping centers for speech purposes.57 But the California Supreme Court interpreted the state constitution to create a right in the state to use shopping centers for expression. The Supreme Court upheld this interpretation as permissible.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
I know when 'California Dreamin' was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.
~ Michelle Phillips
The national polls are distorted. To get a national sample, they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.
~ Paul Manafort
The fourth album encapsulated some remarkable music that was really groundbreaking. We were able to have something like 'When the Levee Breaks,' which, sonically, was very menacing. But then you had the flip side: something like 'Going to California,' which is really intimate.
~ Jimmy Page
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
~ Gavin Newsom
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
~ Francis Parkman
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
~ Dennis Cardoza
I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
Anne Marie Schubert is one of the most horrible district attorneys in the state of California. She represents Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. It's no wonder she continuously refuses to hold the police accountable for violence against people of color.
~ Shaun King
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
~ Robert Toombs
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
~ Phillip Lim
I think our immigrants are a strength for us in San Diego. I think it's a strength in our communities in California. Our immigrant community in San Diego has been part of the fabric of our city for decades, and it's one that I'm proud of.
~ Kevin Faulconer
Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.
~ Michael D. Barnes
But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
~ Kenneth Lay
Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.
~ benson stella ii
California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.
~ Bernard DeVoto
Arnold Schwarzenegger, signing new energy legislation: "I want to make California No. 1 in the fight against global warming. This is something we owe our children and grandchildren." And Arnold at the United Nations: "We hold the future in our hands. Together we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
~ Bill McKibben