Quotes About California History

#1. [Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets without being harassed. He could go into a restaurant and receive service.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory ... everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

#5. Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

Rick Strassman

#6. The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

Benazir Bhutto

#7. I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.

Lori Foster

#8. I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

Palmer Luckey

#9. You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Dennis Hopper

#10. Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

Angela Davis

#11. The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

Aga Khan IV

#12. I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

Herb Ritts

#13. I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

Lana Del Rey

#14. American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

H.L. Mencken

#15. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#16. Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Helen Hunt Jackson

#17. My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

Richard Gough

#18. That curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

Kim Gordon

#20. The world looks different through a smiling face and a crying face, you know? That is, if you have the power to smile through difficult times, then you have nothing to fear. Even hell becomes heaven for you.

Hideaki Sorachi

#21. If you have a good story, it doesn't have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit and the richness of life in California, including its history, people, culture and natural wonders.

Huell Howser

#22. Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide.

Donald Dale Jackson

#23. I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

Hedi Slimane

#24. I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

John Darnielle

#25. However, in a patient with impaired oxygenation a reduction in arterial Po2 cannot distinguish between the three very common conditions of pulmonary collapse, consolidation and oedema.

Andrew B. Lumb

#26. My biggest style regret is that I can't fit into the models' clothes.

Donna Karan

#27. I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

Alton Brown

#28. One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it.

Joan Didion

#29. We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

Brad Park

#30. Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body every year. The effects of every individual interaction are pretty negligible, so don't worry about getting a dark matter stomachache.

Sean Carroll

#31. Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.

Laurence Yep