California Identity Quotes

Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm still trying to figure out what to do with. I mean, when it comes to the themes, this is nothing like an Atwood novel.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

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

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

I'm a California kid, so I love the beach.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

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.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

I'm a typical California boy.

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

I am a California Kid.