More - Kevin Starr Quotes

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

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

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

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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.

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[The estimated 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. It shook the city in two phases lasting 45 seconds.] City hall… collapsed instantly, ... Facades fell from homes, revealing the furniture within.

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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 Colors

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.

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 Wine

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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 Creativity