California Quotes - page 19

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly. (Nicolas Berggruen)
Life in California is beautiful. View quote
Oscar Nunez
My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. View quote
Pete McCloskey
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. View quote
Phillip Lim
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. View quote
Pico Iyer
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back. View quote
Patrick Dempsey
Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California. View quote
Patrick Labyorteaux
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. View quote
Paul Mazursky
I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long. View quote
Penn Badgley
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. View quote
Robert Hass
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar. (Robert M. Parker, Jr.)
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. View quote
Robert Stack
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. View quote
Robert Toombs
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. View quote
Robert Toombs
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. View quote
Robert Towne
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village. View quote
Roger McGuinn
I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them. View quote
Ronnie Montrose
I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going. View quote
Ronnie Spector
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight! View quote
Rupert Friend
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s. View quote
Ruth J. Simmons
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. (Raymond Burr)
The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award. View quote
Richard Carmona
As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death. View quote
Richard Carmona
I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac. View quote
Shanley Caswell