Sacramento Quotes

• When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

  John Muir

  Wine, Sight, Blood

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.208, The Mountaineers Books

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• I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Promise, Pumps, I Can

  "California characters", www.cnn.com. August 7, 2003.

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• The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Gold, Ponies, Made

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• How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Boys

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• Also, I think I'd like to see more out-of-state shows, man. As bad as I hate to say this, I'm looking forward to playing for nobody. That's what happens when you're a guy like me and you travel out to Sacramento, California.

  Cody Johnson

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

  Howard Schultz

  Cities, Kansas City, America

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kings, Wwe, People

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• In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

  Burt Prelutsky

  California, Choices, Thieves

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• I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

  Bob Matsui

  Mother, Father, Taken

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• The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You know what would be better? Arnold should do what he does in the Terminator movies. He should go back in time and prevent Gray Davis from ever being born. That way you wouldn't have the problem.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Doe, Would Be

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• I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Queens, Writing

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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• I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

  Nick Johnson

  Thinking, San Francisco, Laid Back

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• When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, California, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

  Meg Whitman

  Valleys, Might, Miles

  The Economist, October 02, 2010.

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• Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Agents

  Shaquille O'Neal (2014). “Shaq Talks Back”, p.316, St. Martin's Press

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• I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.

  Steve Ballmer

  Team, Home, Hands

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, uk.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

  James Rollins

  Inspiration, Dark, Ideas

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• In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

  Cornel West

  Blessed, California, Inevitability Of Death

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Black And White, Mexican, East

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Depressing, Reality, People

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• I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Powerful

  "Nightmare in La-la Land". www.espn.com. August 17, 2003.

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• Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Warrior, Thinking, Boss

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• The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

  Pico Iyer

  Girl, Teenager, Average

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• When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Years, Shopping

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