Quotes About Northern California

#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. I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

Ronnie Montrose

#3. As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

Stephen Gaghan

#4. I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world - everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles - all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I've had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.

Lou Ferrigno

#5. Did you hear about this 20-year-old kid named John Walker from Northern California who was apparently fighting for the Taliban? ... It didn't take long for the TV networks to jump on this Walker thing. CBS has a new show: 'Walker: Taliban Ranger.'

Jay Leno

#6. I think California has some very good looking women ... I know Stephanie Seymour is from San Diego, and I know Josie Maran - who's my very good friend - she's from Northern California. So I think California produces some good looking women, for sure.

Marisa Miller

#7. 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

#8. I was a tall, sandy-blond Northern California kid. Tommy, meanwhile, appeared to have been grown somewhere dark and moist.

Greg Sestero

#9. I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

Summer Sanders

#10. I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

Christine Feehan

#11. I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

Craig Kilborn

#12. I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

Tracy K. Smith

#13. My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

Jussie Smollett

#14. My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Loni Anderson

#15. THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay.

John Steinbeck

#16. I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.

Mare Winningham

#17. In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me.

Jeff Gordon

#18. I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

Douglass North

#19. I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

Clint Eastwood

#20. Hating L.A. was in my Northern California DNA. We even had a burl plaque that hung on our living room wall that read, "We Don't Give a Damn How it's Done in L.A.

Antonia Crane

#21. Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

Joaquin Miller

#22. the weather in northern california is like your body at 16, you just don't feel it.

Valerie Schrag

#23. For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

Nick Offerman

#24. He missed the Midwest ... Northern California was impractically beautiful. Everywhere you looked there were trees and streams, waterfalls, mountains, the ocean ... There was nowhere to look just to look, just to think.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.

Hilton Als

#26. I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

Marisa Miller

#27. I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

Grant Show

#28. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

Mary Schmich

#29. I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

Ishmael Reed

#30. From there, it was time for dinner: roaring fires, meat popping on spits, tofu sizzling on skillets ((it's northern California, a vegetarian option is not optional), and a style of eating and drinking that can only be described as quaffing.

Cory Doctorow

#31. It had been so long since he'd been tempted that he felt as dry as the Northern California landscape, one spark away from complete devastation.

Annabeth Albert

#32. I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.

Tyler Florence

#33. I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.

Steven Ramirez

#34. I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Thomas Starr King

#35. I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

Adam Driver

#36. I recalled something I'd read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn't be as a demon but as an ordinary-looking guy with a convincing message of peace.

Steven Ramirez