Quotes About California

'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.

The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!

I was born and raised in Palm Springs.

I grew up in Southern California, not too far from Dodger Stadium. And my entire family loves baseball.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

In California, they're not making any more land. And with the high cost of land, from a business standpoint, being able to move your goods quickly and cheaply makes Compton an attractive place to be.

The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.

The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

The Green New Deal would usher the entire country into a literal energy dark age, and California-style blackouts would become routine nationwide.

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

When I was nineteen, I moved to L.A.

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

So, I went to see No Doubt play on March 14, 1987 at the show at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, California. A week later I tried out and I joined the band and that was obviously a completely incredible thing for me and a life changing moment.

As for egg salad, here's our recipe: boil eighteen eggs, peel them, and send six of the egg whites to friends in California who persist in thinking that egg whites matter in any way.

Now hitting on all sixteen cylinders, the Beatles bolted back to the woodshed for The Beatles, a blandly designed masterwork that could inspire any reasonable California citizen to launch a race war.

Land meant something different in Hawai'i then it did in California. People here said the word with a kind of worship in their voices.

In California she might have been called fat. But that was not a word Kate would have used to describe her. She had what Hawaiians called Mana. It meant spiritual power, a kind of inner strength people were drawn to.

The day had arrived-the day, hour and minute Kate had been having nightmares about for months. She was about to leave the house she loved in Pasadena, California, for a place she doesn't even like. And she was leaving behind her dog, Boggs.

We're going to Houston?" "California. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, to be precise." He crossed the room and reached for the door. "We need to interview some SEALs.

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'