Here’s a knockout assortment of the best quotes about California, one of the most epic cities in the USA, that perfectly encapsulate the spirit and beauty of the Golden State.
One of the Best Quotes about California
She stood there bright as the sun on that California coast. ~ Bob Seger
Cali Quotes
Everything is just better in California – the wine, the food, the fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful. ~ Beth Anderson
Nature. That’s the one thing that tips the balance in terms of living here in California. Within minutes, I can be in a desert, at the ocean, in a park, and that’s the most nourishing food for my soul. ~ Lara Pulver
California is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. ~ Walter Winchell
I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don’t think people really know what that means – they think the Beach Boys. I’m thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that. ~ Ariel Pink
If you’re in California, and it’s raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It’s like it’s raining frogs. They’re terrified. ~ Adam Ferrara
Myths that need clarification: “Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach.” False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos. ~ Erma Bombeck
To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath. ~ Ace Antonio Hall
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests, and we have to stop that. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California… If you don’t have much money, you have to learn to cook. ~ Diane Mott Davidson
This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look. ~ Henry Miller
There are so many different challenges California has; it’s the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. ¡Hasta la vista, baby! ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
My California sunrise, there’s a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun. ~ Jon Pardi
California, where the spring comes in the fall, and the fall comes in the summer, and the summer comes in the winter, and the winter never comes at all. ~ Inez Haynes Irwin
Why don’t you go on west to California? There’s work there, and it never gets cold. Why you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why there’s always some kind of crop to work in. Why don’t you go there? ~ John Steinbeck
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
This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie
For the women in California, they’re just downtrodden because they’re so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don’t want to get married; they’re lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy, so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic. ~ Patti Stanger
Some More Quotes on California
Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spend in New York. ~ Harry Ruby
I just realized some things make me happier, and the good weather in California makes me happier. ~ Bianca Balti
California, that advanced post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried, rooted in tradition and character. ~ J. B. Priestley
If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later, all dejected and a failure. ~ Vin Diesel
California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here. ~ Kamala Harris
California is a queer place in a way; it has turned its back on the world and looks into the Pacific Ocean. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least not full of false effort. ~ D. H. Lawrence
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
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions that the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There’s a lot of craziness out there. ~ Parker Stevenson
In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly. ~ Kamala Harris
California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity – when people think of California, they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. ~ Mark Hoppus
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there’s no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. ~ Craig Ferguson
From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, and start being a part of that whole thing. ~ Brendon Urie
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside the convention, and build. ~ Nicolas Berggruen
When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu. ~ Olivia Newton-John
I think my best memories are when I go home to California, and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home. ~ Gigi Hadid
Do Re Me California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, but believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot if you ain’t got the do re me. ~ Woody Guthrie
California: bordering always on the Pacific and sometimes on the ridiculous. So, why do I live here? Because the sun goes down a block from my house. ~ George Carlin
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
California is like an artificial limb that the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that. ~ Saul Bellow
California’s drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible. ~ Frances Beinecke
I love the whole of California, I have places… my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it. ~ Josh Brolin
The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains – The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything! ~ Paul Walker
In California, there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold. ~ Cherie Priest
All my life, I’ve felt like somebody’s wife, or somebody’s mother, or somebody’s daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that’s why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself. ~ Robert Benton
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ~ George W. Bush
And you know something because everything that I’ve gotten – my career, my money, my family; everything that I’ve gotten and achieved is because of California. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
No matter where you put me, I don’t care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I’m going to be who I am. ~ Chris Paul
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
In the photographs themselves, there’s a definite contrast between the figures and the location – I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. ~ Helmut Newton
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California – mightily. ~ Warren Beatty
I don’t think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system. ~ Richard Grieco
Best California Quotes
The best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else. ~ Cormac McCarthy
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. ~ Edward Abbey
California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. ~ Hinton R. Helper
I like to go for a little drive up the California coast. ~ Colin Forrel
I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world. ~ Al Jardine
I’d rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else. ~ Inez Haynes Irwin
In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I’m in New York. ~ Ashley Greene
I think California has the best energy. ~ Kevin Gates
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. ~ Gloria Swanson
Move to California. Malibu is paradise. ~ David Geffen
Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don’t remember the last time I couldn’t walk around in shorts all day. ~ Linus Torvalds
I’m your biggest fan, California. I’m coming home. ~ Joni Mitchell
California is beautiful to look at, but you can’t be a part of it like you can in Michigan. ~ Jennifer Granholm
I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom. ~ Jenny O
California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers. ~ Diego Luna
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. ~ Joan Didion
We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual. ~ James M Cain
The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country – including Florida, California, New York, and Nevada, to name a few. ~ Mark Foley
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. ~ John Muir
I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don’t wait around for success, but who make their own. ~ Benjamin Stone
Every time I come, I’m still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert… I love it. ~ Theo James
California is full of homesick people. ~ Judy Van Der Veer
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. ~ Joni Mitchell
California is always in my mind. ~ David Hockney
Things are tough all over, cupcake, an’ it rains on the just an’ the unjust alike…except in California. ~ Alan Moore
Whatever starts in California, unfortunately, has an inclination to spread. ~ Jimmy Carter
Best California Sayings
Check out the most famous sayings about California! Some of these Cali sayings are fun too!
I don’t bother to look for a parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell. ~ Bob Hope
I’d like to dream my troubles all away, on a bed of California stars. ~ Wilco
Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed. ~ Bob Hope
Another blinding California day. They were all blinding here. ~ William Bayer
This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~ Ian Ziering
Facebook is obviously from California because it says ‘Like’ so many times.
You know you’re from California when you don’t call it “Cali.”
Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude. ~ Katy Mixon
The formula for a happy marriage? It’s the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don’t dwell on it. ~ Jay Trachman
California knows how to party. ~ 2Pac
Funny Quotes for California
All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up. ~ Erma Bombek
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California. ~ Zooey Deschanel
You haven’t lived until you’ve died in California. ~ Mort Sahl
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California, you lose one point of your IQ every year. ~ Truman Capote
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure. ~ Ross Macdonald
One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in ’78 was Santa Claus in shorts. ~ Dennis Franz
In California, everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. ~ Truman Capote
In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows. ~ Woody Allen
In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have suntans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed. ~ Alan Sherman
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ~ Erica Jong
Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you’re going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million-dollar movie. ~ S. J. Perelman
California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange. ~ Fred Allen
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states. ~ Will Rogers
When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding. ~ Demetri Martin
Songs About California
California day, California weather. Take the clouds away, I’ll feel a whole lot better. California day. There’s nothing like the sunshine to get me out of doors… ~ California Day, Starland Vocal Band
For those who come to San Francisco, summertime will be a love-in there, in the streets of San Francisco, gentle people with flowers in their hair… ~ San Francisco, Scott McKenzie
It’s all in the air, you hear it everywhere, no matter what you do, it’s going to get a hold on you: California soul, California soul. They say the sun comes up every morning, and if you listen carefully, the winds that ride on the high time whistle in melody… ~ California Soul, The Fifth Dimension
Still a lot of lands to see, but I wouldn’t want to stay here, it’s too old and cold and settled in its ways. Oh, but California, California, I’m coming home. ~ California, Joni Mitchell
Whoa, California nights, when I’m walking with you, hand in hand by the shore. Yes, I love California nights, at the beach where we swim with the tide rolling in… ~ California Nights, Lesley Gore
California is calling me. California is where I should be. ~ California, Georgia Prophets
I heard the mission bell, and I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell… ~ Hotel California, Eagles
I’d be safe and warm if I was in LA, California dreamin on such a winter’s day. ~ California Dreamin’, The Mamas and the Papas
You’ll know when you get to California. Darling Clementine, it’s a state of mind. You’ll know when you get to California. Freedom’s in the air. It’s waiting there. ~ When You Get to California
Fame and fortune is a magnet, it can pull you far away from home. With a dream a heart you’re never alone. Dreams turn into dust and blow away, and there you are… ~ Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Dionne Warwick
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. ~ John Phillips, San Francisco
I been all around this great big world and I seen all kind of girls, but I couldn’t wait to get back in the states, back to the cutest girls in the world. I wish they all could be California girls… ~ California Girls, The Beach Boys
I’ve got to make it home somehow before I lose my mind. So won’t you carry me back to California? I’ve been on the road too long… ~ Back to California, Carole King
California, rest in peace, simultaneous release. California, show your teeth. She’s my priestess. I’m your priest Yeah, yeah, yeah… ~ The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dani California
Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there’s a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair. ~ Going to California, Led Zeppelin
California Girls Quotes
California is an unbelievable state. One day, I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through. ~ Drew Barrymore
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. ~ Sarah Vowell
I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. An easy Angeleno uniform, so to speak. But for my role on ‘Suits,’ I’m dressed in Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, and Prada almost every day. And therein lies the difference. For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes. ~ Meghan Markle
I’m always tan and blonde and don’t really fit into New York. I’m a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather. ~ Gigi Hadid
I’m a Texas girl with a California soul. ~ Crystal Woods
They write songs about California girls for a reason. ~ Sarah Mlynowski
People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on…like ‘California Girls’ which was a hymn to youth. ~ Brian Wilson
Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl. ~ Rob Sheffield
I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I’m Canadian. ~ Pamela Anderson
I’ve had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I’m from California, and I’m very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I’m bi-coastal. ~ Taryn Manning
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people. ~ Allegra Huston
California Instagram Captions
Crushing on Cali.
Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair – California, take me there.
You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the Golden Coast. ~ Katy Perry
A trip to California is sure to please the soul.
California: Sunny nutland. ~ Edwin Diamond
California, still a magical vanity fair. ~ Eileen Granfors
The sunsets are best on the West Coast.
Cruising through Cali.
Rose all day!
Sunsets and palm trees.
Life in California is beautiful. ~ Oscar Nunez
Southern California Quotes
If you’re a kid in Southern California, somebody – whether it’s you or your parents – somebody throws your hat into the ring, and I think everyone had a commercial or two. ~ Danny Bonaduce
In the US imagination, Southern California is a still-wet canvas where seekers who make their way here can paint whatever picture they like against a backdrop of natural beauty. My California is different. I grew up feeling watched by ghosts. ~ Adonia E. Lugo
There’s nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure. ~ Ross MacDonald
Southern California is a nice place if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading. ~ P. J. O’Rourke
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean, I’m not a complete moron, I’ve watched 90210, and everything. ~ Meg Cabot
There is a lot of California in my… sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach. ~ Brett Young
Southern California is the land of crazy crimes. ~ Don Carpenter
The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans, and jewelry. ~ Dan Jenkins
People actually enjoy it when it rains in San Diego because we never get it. It’s a nice change of pace. When you live in Southern California, everybody says, ‘It’s so expensive there.’ I tell them, ‘It’s just a very expensive weather tax.’ ~ Steve Finley
Northern California Quotes
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
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
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
Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases. ~ Guy Fieri
I’m from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I’s bonding time. ~ Marisa Miller
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
I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching, and being outdoors. ~ Christine Feehan
California Puns
Oh how I’ve mist you, Golden Gate Bridge.
What do you call sugar-free breath mints from California? Sacramentos.
You guac to be kidding me!
California? More like Coolifornia!
Kale-ifornia.
What do you call California cheese? Second-dairy to Wisconsin!
California, I sea you.
Keep palm and carry on.
In a golden state of mind.
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