Kevin Starr Quotes (15 Quotes)

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In my constant reconsideration of California history,

The colors on citrus-crate labels went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange.

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

The army and a reluctant but bullied fire department seemed determined to destroy San Francisco, ... The black powder used to level many buildings turned them into Roman candles. The more this technique failed, the more it was employed.

Outside of the Civil War, there had never been an American city devastated like San Francisco was in 1906. You have to go forward 99 years to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to find a major American city that was nearly wiped out.

We need to reclaim the ethical high ground of what California should mean,

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.

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.

I don't think Hiram Johnson would condemn it, ... but I think he would be astonished at the breakdown of dialogue between the two major branches of government.

Americans and the California Dream.

For a number of years, I taught an architectural history course for developers in the master of real estate development program at USC and returned, again and again, to this point namely, that developers, in exercising their decisive influence on the built environment, had to be considered as primary forces in the evolution of California.

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.

That's one of the issues we really haven't made a decision on.

We go forth and we get a government finally worthy of the extraordinary creativity of the private sector, ... How I'm not running for office. It's not my job to say how.