Northern California Quotes

• 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, Thinking, Moon

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• 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

  Jobs, Hippie, California

  Interview with Reginald Martin, www.dalkeyarchive.com. July, 1983.

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• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• 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

  California, Jam, Band

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• 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

  Photography, Hunting, Fishing

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• 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

  Beautiful, Thinking, New Orleans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

  Jessica Chastain

  Hippie, California

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Hippie, Book, Reading

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Kids, Fighting, Years

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• 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

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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

  Christine Feehan

  Beautiful, California, Hiking

  Christine Feehan (2016). “Fire Bound”, p.200, Penguin

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• 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

  Kids, Cities, California

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

  Craig Kilborn

  Simple, California, People

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• 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

  Funny, California, Southern

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Lonely, Heart, Winter

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• 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

  California, Years, Two

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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

  Marisa Miller

  Dad, California, Santa

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

  Jeff Gordon

  Cheer, California, Fans

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• First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

  Tyler Florence

  Jobs, Past, California

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• 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

  Thinking, California, Long

  "Lou Ferrigno looks back, and luckily not in anger". Interview with William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 16, 2008.

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Football

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• 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

  New York, Cities, California

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• 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

  Children, California, San Francisco

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