Now imagine the scene. A peninsula with the Pacific on one side of it and the huge bay on the other – a peninsula bumpy with bold, precipitous hills, some of them nearly a thousand feet high. The San Franciscans work in the valleys and live on the hills. Cable cars haul them up in […]
California Quotes
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.
In California, people used to write songs about T-Birds and Corvettes. Today, they write regulations.
Big Sur 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.
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.
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 mi.
L.A. Is a meat factory that grinds people into neat little packages.
Isn’t it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
Back about in 48; or ’46 an eager-beaver American army officer captured California. You know what the State Department did? They made him hand it back. Seems he hadn’t touched second base, or something. So they had to go to the trouble of capturing it all over again a few months later.
California, n.: From Latin “calor”, meaning “heat” (as in English “calorie” or Spanish “caliente”); and “fornia'” for “sexual intercourse” or “fornication.” Hence: Tierra de California, “the land of hot sex.”
