Quotes About Californians

#1. unlike most Californians who fled their state and moved here and then wanted to make Montana into a version of what they left behind.

Dean Koontz

#2. There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.

Laura Kalpakian

#3. East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

O. Henry

#4. Sorry I'm late. I had to drag some Californians out of a snowbank.

Cynthia Hand

#5. Jules liked that I was a local. I made her feel authentic, which is especially important to Californians.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#6. Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Sheila Ballantyne

#8. Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#9. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

Thomas Pynchon

#10. Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. 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

#12. The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border.

Elizabeth Emken

#13. Southern Californians freak out when it rains, yet when there's an earthquake they're like 'pass the salt.

Gregor Collins

#14. Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

Jack Paar

#15. For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#16. El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. An old interview of Arnold Schwartzenegger has surfaced where he admits to smoking a lot of pot and having sex with hookers. Finally a Republican all Californians can get behind.

David Letterman

#18. Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

Michelle Stuart

#19. You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

Carly Fiorina

#20. The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

John Garamendi

#21. We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

Phyllis Diller

#22. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Alex Kingston

#23. According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

Jay Leno

#24. A new study says that over half of all Californians are
obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds
of Californians.

Jay Leno

#25. The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

Joan Juliet Buck

#26. Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

Carly Fiorina

#27. Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

Stella Benson

#28. California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

#29. I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

Dick Van Patten

#30. Californians try everything once.

T. J. MacGregor

#31. We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.

Henry Rollins

#32. Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.

Rob Kampia

#33. Aussies are really laid back, and so are Californians.

Ruby Rose

#34. Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

Jerry Brown

#35. Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

Laura Hillenbrand

#36. Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

Allen West

#37. The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston ...

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#38. In California depth is measured in feet: six feet on one end of the pool and three feet on the other.

Anthony Marais

#39. Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n.

Bum Phillips