California Quotes

• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

  Edward Abbey

  Travel, Fun, Crazy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Alison Lurie

  Past, Europe, Southern

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

  Robert Benton

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.

  Erma Bombeck

  Beach, Utah, White

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  Oscar Nunez

  Beautiful

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• In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, America, Southern

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• I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Prison

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• When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Oklahoma, States

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Fog, Smog

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• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Done, Ifs

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

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, Stewardship

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

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• Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields - there you will see our flags - with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Men, White

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Giving, Hollywood

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• In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

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• Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, White, People

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Orange

  American Magazine Dec. 1945, p. 120

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• California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Needs, Need You

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• As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

  Jay Leno

  Laughing, Confusing, Letters

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• California is always in my mind.

  David Hockney

  Mind

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• In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Rain, Weather

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• I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Space, Hollywood

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