91 California Quotes and Sayings about The Golden State

Here are the 91 California Quotes and Sayings about The Golden State.

California is the United States’ most populous state and is celebrated for its wide-ranging and flourishing sectors, encompassing business, technology and entertainment.

This lively destination presents a diverse array of attractions for all: an abundant cultural landscape, impressive mountains, beautiful beaches, top-notch vineyards, vibrant cities teeming with energy, stunning national parks and the mesmerizing Pacific Ocean.

Travelers to California can immerse themselves in its extraordinary natural splendor, visit dynamic cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego and savor its gastronomic wonders, from farm-fresh fare to refined wine experiences.

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The state’s forward-thinking environment nurtures innovation and originality, positioning it as a nexus for ambitious professionals and individuals pursuing self-improvement.

Ultimately, California is a distinctive fusion of possibilities, adventures and awe-inspiring scenery that consistently captivates and motivates both locals and tourists.


California Quotes

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California is an unbelievable state. ~ Drew Barrymore.

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California, here we come. Right back where we started from. ~ Phantom Planet.

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Californians try everything once. ~ T. J. MacGregor.

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California, still a magical vanity fair. ~ Eileen Granfors.

Life in California is beautiful. ~ Oscar Nunez.

You haven’t lived until you’ve died in California. ~ Mort Sahl.

I just realized some things make me happier, and the good weather in California makes me happier. ~ Bianca Balti.

California is full of homesick people. ~ Judy Van Der Veer.

All scenery in California requires distance to give it charm. ~ Mark Twain.

I’m a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather. ~ Gigi Hadid.

Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart. ~ Led Zeppelin.

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. ~ Hinton R. Helper.

California is where you can’t run any farther without getting wet. ~ Neil Morgan.

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California. ~ Danny Meyer.

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Best California Quotes

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.

Everyone who comes to California brings a little of his own state with him. His own old state, regardless of where or when, is always lurking in the back of his memory for comparison with what he finds here. ~ Max Miller.

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She stood there bright as the sun on that California coast. ~ Bob Seger.

I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. ~ Alan Alda.

It’s the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking. ~ Rae Carson.

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.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else. ~ Cormac McCarthy.

We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual. ~ James M Cain.

Beautiful California Quotes

When a tree takes a notion to grow in California, nothing in Heaven or on earth will stop it. ~ Lilian Leland.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows. ~ Woody Allen.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California. ~ Zooey Deschanel.

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California is always in my mind. ~ David Hockney.

The men of California are thriftless, proud, and extravagant, and very much given to gaming; and the women have but little education, and a good deal of beauty, and their morality, of course, is none of the best. ~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.

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 convention and build. ~ Nicolas Berggruen.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. ~ Jimmy Carter.

California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farmworkers. ~ Diego Luna.

Famous California Quotes

I just found out her ghost left town, the Queen of California is stepping down. ~ John Mayer.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an’ it rains on the just an’ the unjust alike…except in California. ~ Alan Moore.

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I’m a Texas girl, with a California soul. ~ Crystal Woods.

California produces 40% of America’s fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts – the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too. ~ Ronald Reagan.

Whether they’re for good or bad, all trends in the United States start in California. ~ Steve Schmidt.

A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow. ~ Margaret MacMillan.

California is where you get to start over. ~ Tracy Chevalier.

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Everyone in California is from somewhere else. ~ Wright Morris.

Everything is just better in California – the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful. ~ Beth Anderson.

Not all clouds fit over the ocean. Rain finds the lemon tree but rarely in California. ~ Emily Vizzo.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. ~ Truman Capote.

California is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. ~ Walter Winchell.

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My heart cried out for you, California. ~ Joni Mitchell.

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.

Top California Quotes

There’s nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure. ~ Ross MacDonald.

The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favorite 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, 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.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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.

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California knows how to party. ~ 2Pac.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, one must visit Southern California to observe the future. ~ Alison Lurie.

I’d rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else. ~ Inez Haynes Irwin.

It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. ~ Truman Capote.

Great California Quotes

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. ~ John Muir.

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.

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.

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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. ~ Dan Quayle.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days, and more of them, than any other country. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath. ~ Ace Antonio Hall.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. ~ Joni Mitchell.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. ~ Edward Abbey.

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I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air – air you can kiss – and palms. ~ Jack Keroua.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ~ Don Delillo.

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.

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.

In California the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger…if you can move your forehead over the age of forty, then people become very suspicious. ~ Matt Haig.

Lovely California Quotes

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.

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I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom. ~ Jenny O.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American. ~ Barack Obama.

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.

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of westering people. ~ Bernard DeVoto.

It was, of course, the discovery of gold that got California off to a flying start, and set in motion its chain-reaction, explosive, self-generating pattern of development. ~ Carey McWilliams.

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If they can’t do it in California, it can’t be done anywhere. ~ Taylor Caldwell.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw. ~ Stuart Rothenberg.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world. ~ Al Jardine.

Powerful California Quotes

I’m your biggest fan, California, I’m coming home ~ Joni Mitchell.

Every time I come, I’m still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert… I love it. ~ Theo James.

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California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange. ~ Fred Allen.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I’d be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge. ~ Omari Hardwick.

There are so many different challenges California has; it’s the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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 Bombeck.

California is an Italy without its art. ~ Oscar Wilde.

In California gold was what God was in the rest of the country: everything, everywhere. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins.

Ultimate California Quotes

I think California has the best energy. ~ Kevin Gates.

I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. ~ Meghan Markle.

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I like to go for a little drive up the California coast. ~ Colin Farrell.

The light was different here in California. ~ Heidi Freeston.

California people are quitters. No offense. It’s just you’ve got restlessness in your blood. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins.

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. ~ Katy Perry.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. ~ D. H. Lawrence.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. ~ Gloria Swanson.


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