14 Quotes by Kevin Starr

In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

All things considered, she would have to be the most conspicuous and influential of the first ladies in the history of the state.

The earthquake cleared out one San Francisco -- which was the dominant place in California -- and replaced it with another. It accelerated the modernization of California.