California Dream Quotes

#1. Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#2. He stared at her steadily. If we were eating Gypsy-style, sitting before a fire, I would offer you the choicest bites of meat. The soft inside of the bread. The sweetest sections of fruit.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

#4. Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

David Nalbandian

#5. I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

Victoria Principal

#6. No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson

#7. 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

#8. What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

John Van Hamersveld

#9. Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.

Heather Demetrios

#10. A dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.

Samantha Hunt

#11. There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Richard Nelson

#12. A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Erica Jong

#13. My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. But come to California. Come to these canyons if you want to be driven by sacredness into the air. If you dream of the true, clear silences, if you want those silences to sing - come to California.

Denis Johnson

#15. Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.

Stephen Kinzer

#16. I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

Noel Gallagher

#17. I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#18. I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

Billy Bob Thornton

#19. Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

John Steinbeck

#20. Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

George S. Patton

#21. Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

Dylan Penn

#22. I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.

Ari Marcopoulos

#23. I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

Heather Demetrios

#24. People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Stella Benson

#26. California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

Bernard DeVoto