130+ Best California Quotes and California Instagram Captions

Best California Quotes

“Everything is just better in California – the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.” – Beth Anderson

“She stood there bright as the sun on that California coast.” – Bob Seger

“There are so many different challenges California has; it’s the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. Hasta la vista, baby!” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The bay area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.” – Billy Graham

“California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.” – Nicolas Berggruen

“If they can’t do it in California, it can’t be done anywhere.” – Taylor Caldwell

“I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.” – Al Jardine

“When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.” – Joni Mitchell

“Things are tough all over, cupcake, an’ it rains on the just an’ the unjust alike…except in California.” – Alan Moore

“California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.” – Inez Haynes Irwin

Unique California Instagram Captions

“Crushing on Cali.”

“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair – California, take me there.”

“The sunsets are best on the West Coast.”

“Beach day is every day in Cali.”

“The West Coast is the best coast.”

“Dream of Californication…”

“Hooray for Hollywood.”

“California, still a magical vanity fair.” – Eileen Granfors

“My heart cried out for you, California.” – Joni Mitchell

“California: Sunny nutland.” – Edwin Diamond

Funny California Puns for Instagram Captions

Golden State of Mind.

The West Coast is the Best Toast.

California, I sea you.

Kelp! I need somebody.

Super-California-listicexpialidocious

After drinking so much Californian wine, I need a Napa!

Leaving California is un-bear-able.

I’m on vacation, so I won’t let work tide me down!

Taco-bout a great trip!

You guac to be kidding me!

More California Puns for Instagram Captions

I won’t burrito-round the bush! California is stunning.

California brings out my resting beach face. 

A-pier-antly you just can’t tear me away from the beach!

Kale-ifornia.

In California, the vegan puns are so corny.

Keep palm and carry on.

California is all I avo wanted.

I won’t burrito-round the bush! California is stunning.

California is my sand-tuary.

Taco-bout a great trip!

Short California Quotes

“I’d rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.” – Inez Haynes Irwin

“My heart cried out for you, California.” – Joni Mitchell

“Whether they’re for good or bad, all trends in the United States start in California.” – Steve Schmidt

“When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.” – John Muir

“This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something.” – Ian Ziering

“Life in California is beautiful.” – Oscar Nunez

“California is always in my mind.” – David Hockney

“I think California has the best energy.” – Kevin Gates

“I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.” – Jenny O.

“Move to California. Malibu is paradise.” – David Geffen

Inspirational Quotes about California

“We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual.” – James M Cain

“To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath.” – Ace Antonio Hall

“The formula for a happy marriage? It’s the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don’t dwell on it.” – Jay Trachman

“From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.” – Brendon Urie

“Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have.” – Stella Benson

“In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I’m in New York.” – Ashley Greene

“California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of westering people.” – Bernard DeVoto

“To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath.” – Ace Antonio Hall

“We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual.” – James M Cain

“Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spend in New York.” – Harry Ruby

Quotes about Life in California

“California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity – when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.” – Mark Hoppus

“The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.” – Joan Didion

“In California, everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.” – Truman Capote

“California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.” – Drew Barrymore

“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.” – Ross Macdonald

“I just realized some things make me happier, and the good weather in California makes me happier.” – Bianca Balti

“California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.” – Inez Haynes Irwin

“I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.” – Alan Alda

“California: bordering always on the Pacific and sometimes on the ridiculous. So, why do I live here? Because the sun goes down a block from my house.” – George Carlin

“I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.” – Christine Feehan

California Travel Quotes

“Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.” – Zooey Deschanel

“Your shadow weighs a ton, driving down the 101. California here we come, right back where we started from.” – Phantom Planet

“You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast.” – Katy Perry

“Every time I come, I’m still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert… I love it.” – Theo James

“Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart.” — Led Zeppelin

“All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.” – Erma Bombek

“I’m always tan and blonde and don’t really fit into New York. I’m a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.” – Gigi Hadid

“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don’t.” – Laura Kalpakian

“I’m your biggest fan, California, I’m coming home” – Joni Mitchell, ‘California’

“I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air – air you can kiss – and palms.” – Jack Keroua

Best California Quotes

“California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.” – Saul Bellow

“If you’re in California, and it’s raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It’s like it’s raining frogs. They’re terrified.” – Adam Ferrara

“In California, there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.” – Cherie Priest

“One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in ’78 was Santa Claus in shorts.” – Dennis Franz

“I believe in that old adage that ‘as goes California, so goes the country.’” – Kamala Harris

“Santa Barbara is pleasant. It’s heaven, but with a bit more traffic.” – Matt Hai

“California is where you get to start over.” – Tracy Chevalier

“In California gold was what God was in the rest of the country: everything, everywhere.” – Claire Vaye Watkins

“All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.” – Mark Twain

“In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.” – Denzel Washington

Top California Quotes

“Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.” – Bob Hope

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” – Edward Abbey

“You haven’t lived until you’ve died in California.” – Mort Sahl

“The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favorite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains – The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!” – Paul Walker

“Trust the horticulturalists: California’s genius may be green, but its underlying beauty is brown.” – Jared Farmer

“If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It’s the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us.” – Ross Macdonald

“California is a place where they make too many pictures and not enough actors.” – Walter Winchell

“My California sunrise, there’s a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.” – Jon Pardi

“California is full of homesick people.” – Judy Van Der Veer

“California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.” – Hinton R. Helper

Funny California Quotes

“In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have suntans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.” – Alan Sherman

“It’s the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.” –Rae Carson

“It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose on point of your IQ every year.” – Truman Capote

“A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.” – Jay Leno

“In California, the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger…if you can move your forehead over the age of forty, then people become very suspicious.” – Matt Haig

“Going back to Cali, strictly for the weather.” – The Notorious B.I.G.

“Myths that need clarification: “Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach.” False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.” – Erma Bombeck

“California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange.” – Fred Allen

“In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.” – Woody Allen

Romantic California Quotes

“Best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else.” – Cormac Mccarthy

Romantic California Quotes

“In your arms, by the ocean. Surrounded by the starry, dreamy sky. Wrapped-up with the warmth of a bonfire. Lit-up by our love for the universe – California” – Farah Ayaad

“My parents had lived in California, long ago, when they were twenty and twenty-two, also newly married. This distant knowledge romanced me like a whiff of honey, the sweet and mythic prehistory of my existence.” – Aspen Matis

“Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart.” – Led Zeppelin

“I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I’d be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.” – Omari Hardwick

“Dean’s California–wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.” – Jack Kerouac

“California is where you get to start over.” – Tracy Chevalier

“If you’ve had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.” – Ann Patchett

“Everything in her wanted to run -fly back to California, back to her quiet existence working among strangers. Hiding out in the folds of tree trunks and tropical petals, tucked away safely among so many foreign plants and people.” – Alice Sebold

“Dean’s California–wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.” – Jack Kerouac

More California Quotes

“Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.” – Erica Jong

“I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.” – Clint Eastwood

“This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.” – Henry Miller

“The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans, and jewelry.” – Dan Jenkins

“And you know something because everything that I’ve gotten – my career, my money, my family; everything that I’ve gotten and achieved is because of California.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.” – Will Rogers

“I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I’m not a complete moron, I’ve watched 90210, and everything.” – Meg Cabot

“I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.” – Chris Carmack

“I’m very much a hippie from Northern California.” – Jessica Chastain

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