Bakersfield Quotes:

I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Light, White, Heaven, White Light, Bakersfield

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

- Juice Newton

topic: Song, Simple, Personality, Bakersfield, Being Straightforward

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

- Michael Lewis

topic: California, Mexican, House, Bakersfield

We can bring crews in from other areas, too. If Monterey is hard hit and Bakersfield, for example, is not, we can bring crews in from there.

- Bryan Swanson

topic: Example, Crew, Monterey, Bakersfield

It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

- Ed Begley, Jr.

source: "Power Q&A: Ed Begley Jr". Interview with Jennifer Vogel, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

topic: Bakersfield, Experiencing Something