Sacramento Quotes:

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.208, The Mountaineers Books

topic: Wine, Sight, Blood, Sacramento

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Promise, Pumps, Sacramento

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

- Wayne Thiebaud

topic: Gold, Ponies, Made, Sacramento, Gold Rush

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Team, Boys, Cub Scout, Sacramento

Also, I think I'd like to see more out-of-state shows, man. As bad as I hate to say this, I'm looking forward to playing for nobody. That's what happens when you're a guy like me and you travel out to Sacramento, California.

- Cody Johnson

topic: Hate, Men, Thinking, Sacramento

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Kansas City, America, Cities, Municipality, Sacramento

Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Kings, Wwe, People, Sacramento

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

- Burt Prelutsky

topic: California, Choices, Thieves, Sacramento

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

- Bob Matsui

topic: Mother, Father, Taken, Internment, Internment Camps

The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You know what would be better? Arnold should do what he does in the Terminator movies. He should go back in time and prevent Gray Davis from ever being born. That way you wouldn't have the problem.

- Jay Leno

topic: Running, Doe, Would Be, Go Back In Time, Back In Time

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Queens, Writing, Sacramento

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

- Randall Munroe

topic: Cairo, Canberra, Seattle, Beijing, Portland

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

- Nick Johnson

topic: Thinking, San Francisco, Laid Back, Sacramento

When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Talking, California, People, Voter Registration, Sacramento

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

- Meg Whitman

topic: Might, Valleys, Given, Sacramento, Silicon

Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Nba, Agents, Free Agents, Sacramento

I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.

- Steve Ballmer

source: "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, uk.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

topic: Team, Home, Hands, Sacramento

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

- James Rollins

topic: Inspiration, Dark, Ideas, Thoughts And Ideas, Sacramento

In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

- Richard Rodriguez

topic: Black And White, Mexican, East, East Side, Sacramento

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

- Cornel West

source: "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

topic: Blessed, California, Inevitability Of Death, Inevitability, Fragility Of Life

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

- Robert Crumb

topic: Depressing, Reality, People, Stanley, Sacramento

I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: "Nightmare in La-la Land". www.espn.com. August 17, 2003.

topic: Running, Dream, Powerful, Governors, Sacramento

Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Warrior, Thinking, Boss, Sacramento

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Girl, Teenager, Average, Sacramento

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

- Tom Hanks

topic: Jobs, Years, Shopping, Cushions, Sacramento

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

topic: Team, Kids, White, Fat Kid, Team Captain

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

- Harry Shearer

topic: School, Years, Two, State Legislatures, Graduate School

I don't want to say Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released an audiotape on the Al Jazeera network from his underground bunker somewhere in the Sacramento area.

- Jay Leno

topic: Running, Want, Als, Sacramento

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.

- Tom Hayden

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Book, People, Organizer, Caucus

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

- Sarah Zettel

topic: California, Born, Sacramento

Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

- Huey Newton

source: Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

topic: Jobs, Giving Up, Mean, Upper Class, Time Is Money

People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

- Oscar Robertson

topic: Basketball, Team, Player, Duncan, Sacramento

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us.

- Scott Skiles

topic: Team, Reality, New Orleans, Big Challenges, Sacramento

Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

- NeNe Leakes

topic: Wine, Opening Up, Airports, Sacramento, Business Partners

I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.

- Robert Crumb

topic: America, Guy, Ordinary, Sacramento

There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.

- George Deukmejian

topic: Animal, Pesticides, Causes, Sacramento

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

topic: Children, California, San Francisco, Sacramento, Northern California