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Quotes About California

I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there.
~ George Takei
In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.
~ Ken Hakuta
A Klan mayor ruled Anaheim, California; the city was nicknamed "Klanaheim.
~ Timothy Egan
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
~ George Cukor
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
~ Ross MacDonald
I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.
~ Marisa Miller
I always said that if I moved to California I'd live by the ocean.
~ Bob Baffert
The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.
~ Charlotte Caffey
I just wish the California officials would focus more on cleaning up the air in their state than trying to look like they're doing something globally for climate change.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
~ Wanda Jackson
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
~ Kamala Harris
I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.
~ Bud Luckey
In 2019, EVs were less than 3 percent of new car sales in the United States. Some 189 zip codes—0.2 percent of the 43,000 in the country—represent 25 percent of EV sales, and all are in California. The main driver is government policy, as it is around the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
~ Rae Carson
Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, in Anaheim, California. Just four days earlier he and Lillian had their thirtieth wedding anniversary.
~ Whitney Stewart
The Americans? These are people who invaded Texas and California with ethnic savagery. What do they have against us?" *
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Burden … began to read to the child in Spanish from the book which he had brought with him from California, interspersing the fine, sonorous flowing of mysticism in a foreign tongue with harsh, extemporized dissertations composed half of the bleak and bloodless logic which he remembered from his father on interminable New England Sundays, and half of immediate hellfire and tangible brimstone of which any country Methodist circuit rider would have been proud.
~ William Faulkner
And somewhere, in a black California morning, some hour before dawn, amid the corridors, the galleries, the faces of dream, fragments of conversation she half-recalled, waking to pale fog against the windows of the master bedroom, she prized something free and dragged it back through the wall of sleep. Rolling over, fumbling through a bedside drawer, finding a Porsche pen, a present from an assistant grip, she inscribed her treasure on the glossy back of an Italian fashion magazine:
~ William Gibson
we went over to the bar of the Hotel California
~ William L. Shirer
Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
~ Chita Rivera
Fer shure, dudette.
~ Chris Grabenstein
The message is, IT'S GETTING LATE. Be glad you're in a California art school but don't forget you live by compromise and contradiction cause those who don't just die like dogs.
~ Chris Kraus
It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.
~ Christine Taylor
Sacramento, capital of California, and went sailing along over the Great Valley.
~ Helen Wells