Oakland California Quotes

#1. Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

Tom Hanks

#2. My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.

Tamaryn

#3. This maybe a game, but it isn't meant to be played

Reki Kawahara

#4. There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

Errol Flynn

#5. I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

G-Eazy

#6. Children will end up a world away, whether you want them to or not - unaware of the havoc being wreaked upon their histories back home.

Jan Ellison

#7. I mean, I'm humble ... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

Lance Gross

#8. I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

Gene Luen Yang

#9. Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

John Grisham

#10. I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Zubin Mehta

#11. We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Multatuli

#13. Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.

John Waters

#14. We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

Zendaya

#16. The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

Boy George

#17. In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.

Colin Trevorrow

#18. All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Mary Roach