Top California Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of California quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Venus Williams
If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
- Venus Williams
Collection: California
Image of J. C. Watts
We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.
- J. C. Watts
Collection: California
Image of Craig T. Nelson
California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.
- Craig T. Nelson
Collection: California
Image of John Moody
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California
- John Moody
Collection: California
Image of John Moody
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
- John Moody
Collection: California
Image of Gary Miller
California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States
- Gary Miller
Collection: California
Image of Dorothy B. Hughes
Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.
- Dorothy B. Hughes
Collection: California
Image of Lori Lansens
Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.
- Lori Lansens
Collection: California
Image of Joni Mitchell
Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: California
Image of Josh Brolin
I love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it.
- Josh Brolin
Collection: California
Image of George Pelecanos
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.
- George Pelecanos
Collection: California
Image of William T. Vollmann
I decided that there is really some sort of entity that I call Imperial, and I decided to extend it all the way along the California-Mexico border and into Tijuana and then to the Pacific because it all has a similar feeling.
- William T. Vollmann
Collection: California
Image of Janice Hahn
A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.
- Janice Hahn
Collection: California
Image of Rob Ford
Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California.
- Rob Ford
Collection: California
Image of Morris Chestnut
California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
- Morris Chestnut
Collection: California
Image of Jerry Brown
You're all welcome in California.
- Jerry Brown
Collection: California
Image of Hermann Goring
After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
- Hermann Goring
Collection: California
Image of David Pogue
Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.
- David Pogue
Collection: California
Image of Richard Chamberlain
Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.
- Richard Chamberlain
Collection: California
Image of Jonathan Culler
Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.
- Jonathan Culler
Collection: California
Image of Helen McCloy
Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.
- Helen McCloy
Collection: California
Image of Maureen Lipman
What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.
- Maureen Lipman
Collection: California
Image of Jeffery Taylor
Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers are also twice as likely to visit a branch as their primary transaction method, which contributes to higher overall satisfaction levels. Multiple convenient locations and extended operating hours in supermarkets positively increase customer perceptions of convenience for Downey.
- Jeffery Taylor
Collection: California
Image of Gertrude Atherton
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
- Gertrude Atherton
Collection: California
Image of Lou Engle
What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.
- Lou Engle
Collection: California
Image of Bruce Dern
I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
- Bruce Dern
Collection: California
Image of Joseph DeRisi
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
- Joseph DeRisi
Collection: California
Image of Mark Yudof
Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening
- Mark Yudof
Collection: California
Image of Hugh Ross
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'
- Hugh Ross
Collection: California
Image of Al Jolson
California, here I come, right back where I started from.
- Al Jolson
Collection: California
Image of Alex Kingston
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
- Alex Kingston
Collection: California
Image of Leland Sklar
I grew up in Southern California and there is a deep car culture there. I am now down to one car. It is a 1923 T pick up with 1000 hp. I have had a number of cars but little time and space so I have liquidated most of them.
- Leland Sklar
Collection: California
Image of Gray Davis
I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.
- Gray Davis
Collection: California
Image of Wil Shriner
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.
- Wil Shriner
Collection: California
Image of Larry Flynt
You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.
- Larry Flynt
Collection: California
Image of David Swanson
California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.
- David Swanson
Collection: California
Image of David Swanson
Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.
- David Swanson
Collection: California
Image of Otis Chandler
Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.
- Otis Chandler
Collection: California
Image of Ernest Gaines
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
- Ernest Gaines
Collection: California
Image of Bea Arthur
I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.
- Bea Arthur
Collection: California
Image of Burt Prelutsky
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
- Burt Prelutsky
Collection: California
Image of Dwight Henry
I love California. I love Hollywood.
- Dwight Henry
Collection: California
Image of Marc Reisner
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.
- Marc Reisner
Collection: California
Image of Edan Lepucki
I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.
- Edan Lepucki
Collection: California
Image of Michel Martin
Maxine Waters is a Democrat from California in her 13th term. She is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. She is among the six-dozen Democratic lawmakers who boycotted Donald's Trump inauguration. She did participate in the women's march.
- Michel Martin
Collection: California
Image of Kevin Starr
It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.
- Kevin Starr
Collection: California
Image of T. J. MacGregor
Californians try everything once.
- T. J. MacGregor
Collection: California
Image of Sheila Ballantyne
in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.
- Sheila Ballantyne
Collection: California
Image of Inez Haynes Irwin
I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.
- Inez Haynes Irwin
Collection: California
Image of Inez Haynes Irwin
there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.
- Inez Haynes Irwin
Collection: California