California Quotes

California is a great place to live - if you happen to be an orange. (Fred Allen)
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California, you lose one point of IQ every year. View quote
Truman Capote
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. View quote
Saul Bellow
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny. View quote
William McKinley
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. View quote
Dan Quayle
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure. View quote
Ross Macdonald
Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, ... We're going to California and Texas and New York. We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. Then we're going to Washington D.C. to take back the White House. (Howard Dean)
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. View quote
Edward Abbey
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. View quote
David Talbot
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. View quote
Elton Gallegly
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. View quote
Glenn Frey
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. View quote
Herb Ritts
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. View quote
Ishmael Reed
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. View quote
Parker Stevenson
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there. View quote
Parker Stevenson
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. (Roger Mahony)
Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. View quote
Ronnie Spector
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. View quote
Warren Beatty
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. View quote
Peter DeFazio
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. View quote
Vin Diesel