Kevin Starr Quotations

Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.

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.

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

We have a lot of concerns. (We're concerned) with the well-being of the city as well as the employees. It's never easy when you're dealing with a city whose employees are not getting a raise.

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.

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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.

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

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.