Quotes About California

The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

In the spring of 1854, he moved down to "the Monte" (later called El Monte), the first exclusively white settlement in Los Angeles County, located on the stage road between San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Susan Thompson's family had opened a hotel there called the Willow Grove Inn, and the Richardsons, another Brewster party family who had made it to California in 1852, had settled just a few miles away.

In early 1856 a California rancher named Duff Weaver wrote to Lorenzo to say an American woman was living with Mohave Indians and claimed that Fort Yuma's new commander, Martin Burke, had refused an offer to trade her back for a few blankets. Southern California's first newspaper, the Los Angeles Star, ran the story, reprinting Weaver's letter and fulminating about the commanding officer's refusal to ransom "two American women from worse than negro slavery.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year

When it came time to populate the one thousand miles of our nation-state, we planted 70 percent of the people at the southern end where only 30 percent of the water was made. This wasn't misplaced people, we told ourselves. This was misplaced rain. In our resolve to move those molecules of water to where the crops and houses grew, California pulled off the ultimate sleight of hand.

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

According to University of California law professor Jonathan Simon, in California, for example, political prisoner George Jackson and "Jackson's story" of emergence from poor black communities to violent resistance within prisons, "set the terms of the state's prison-expansion policy in the 1980s and provided an icon of the convict-as-revolutionary-terrorist that would reset the national common sense about prisons and prisoners.

The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air like an atmospheric irony, and a Jumbotron directly in front of me displayed a blandly handsome announcer seated behind a curved desk emblazoned with DARPA's logo: a sports broadcast mise-en-scène from some speculative future, vaguely fascist, in which the machinery of national defense had become a spectacle of mass entertainment.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

On his running for California Governor: It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol. As far as Mikuriya was concerned, marijuana was not a gateway drug to addiction—it was an exit drug.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol.

The Weather simply didn't exist in Colombia. I later found out that no one asks or talks about the weather in Medellín, as it never varies, nor are there any television meteorologists. Every day the temperature is in the mid-seventies, with sunlight and an occasional cloud cover. Yet even in Southern California, where the same is true, natives talk about the weather constantly. As

The formula for a happy marriage? It's the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don't dwell on it