California Quotes

• California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Thinking, People, Risk

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• 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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• Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

  Shana Alexander

  Home, People, Migration

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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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• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Land, Gold Rush

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

  Mark Twain

  Distance, Giving, Charm

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.297, Xist Publishing

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• California is an Italy without its art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art

  Quoted in Denver Tribune, Apr. 1882

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• I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.

  Jenny O.

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

  Truman Capote

  Therapists

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• California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

  Jon Stewart

  Evil

  "We can all stop laughing on Wednesday, but for now, here's a sampling of recall election humor, part deux, from the nation's wags" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. October 2, 2003.

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• California: Sunny nutland.

  Edwin Diamond

  Travel, Home, Sunny

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• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fun, Thinking, Want

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• California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beach, Sunset, Thinking

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Californians try everything once.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Trying, Californians

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• California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.

  Ronald Reagan

  Vegetables, Nuts, America

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• California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

  Barack Obama

  Matter, Economy, Producers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• Life in California is beautiful.

  Oscar Nunez

  Beautiful

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• All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Cheer, Tired

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

  Wright Morris

  Somewhere Else

  Wright Morris (1977). “Love Among the Cannibals”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Taylor Caldwell

  Done, Ifs

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• The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Running, Moving, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

  John Steinbeck

  Orange, Goes On, West

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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• I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

  Joni Mitchell

  Home, Fans, Biggest Fan

  Song: California

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