California Quotes - page 6

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. (Stephen Breyer)
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner. View quote
Summer Sanders
I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place. View quote
Scott Speedman
I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California. View quote
Thuy Trang
A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped. View quote
Tichina Arnold
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. View quote
Tom Hayden
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. View quote
Townsend Harris
I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children. View quote
Tracy K. Smith
The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate. View quote
Tamsin Egerton
First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it. View quote
Tyler Florence
I'm from California, and still live in LA. (Teena Marie)
I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream. View quote
Victoria Principal
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma. View quote
Wanda Jackson
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. View quote
Warren Christopher
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that. View quote
Warren Cuccurullo
There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada. View quote
Wayne Rogers
I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense. View quote
Sigourney Weaver
I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it. View quote
Halle Berry
I remember I was In the tanning salon When I heard that River Phoenix was gone They say that only the good die young But that ain't true where I come from California, California. View quote
River Phoenix
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut. View quote
Charles A. Reich
I wanted them to see the gloriousness of the California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah desert. So every chance we got, we stopped the bus and just absorbed that dead heat beauty and that terrain. (John Lydon)
Garner: Before we get off the electoral process, they wanted me to run for Governor [of California] about 8 years ago--ahem--and I didn't want to do it. I wasn't gonna get in with that-- Tavis Smiley: Now you wish you had. Garner: No, no, no. Tavis Smiley: Hey, Arnold [Schwarzenegger] won. Garner: No. I think I could have won easy, but I don't think that they ought to have somebody like me or Schwarzenegger as Governor. It's no way to run a state. View quote
James Garner
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced - there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
What was once Sinclair Lewis is buried in no ground. Even in life he was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts, and of medical men who, as youths, were inspired by Martin Arrowsmith. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington. View quote
Brian Mulroney