#california

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats! ↗

— Blake Lively

#buying #california #coats #completely #i

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#band #both #brooklyn #california #daughters

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. ↗

— Natalie Massenet

#before #california #degree #english #english literature

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#california #half #i #lives #our

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

#california #care #carolina #city #florida

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children. ↗

— Rob Reiner

#attacks #best #california #cannot #children

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗

— John Sexton

#ansel #asking #california #call #coming

Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#amanda #baby #back #brian #california

You know, I have to tell you"--I tried to make my voice bright to lighten the moo--"this ring of yours has got to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen." "I'm insulted." He held his hand up to the moonlight and straightened the monstrosity on his finger. "My dad gave this to me when we moved to Michigan.'To remember the old life' he said. I've never taken it off. I look at it and see California." "Remind me never to visit California. ↗

— Linda Gerber

#life #michigan #ring #death

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#san-francisco #travel #mysticism