“I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.” BelieveWellsKidsSchoolSmartGoldUniversityFocusedMedicalCaliforniaAwardsBelieve In MeHonoredSan FranciscoMedical SchoolValedictoriansSmart Kid Author:Richard Carmona
“Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.” EndsLyingMysteryGoldBlessedCaliforniaGrainEnd TimesWheat Author:Edward Everett
“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.” RomanceGloryGoldCaliforniaDiamondGeographyFeverWashingDiggingBrazil Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California” LinesEconomyDiscoveryGoldCaliforniaConstructionRailwayConsolidation Author:John Moody
“The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.” PeopleWarEndsBlackCommunityFantasyFeetRocksTenProjectsGoldWestSurfaceHillsCaliforniaSoilUtopian Author:Christine Jennings
“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.” SaidLyingGoldWingsSizeCaliforniaRumorNuggetsWalnuts Book:Boneshaker Source: Boneshaker
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.” PeopleGivingYearsTwoHomeSeemsHappensAgeGirlFatherNamesPiecesBloodStrangeBandShotsGoldHorseCaliforniaPlusCowardCashTomsFourteenFortsArkansasCredenceWintertimeCash Money Author:Charles Portis
“In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.” WorldYearsFirstsArtTwoWaterLandRainRiversGoldSpreadCaliforniaLakesTwo YearsSignificanceValleysSaltGreedyUtah Author:Stuart Campbell
“The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.” PeopleMeanStillsDreamEarthTelevisionGoldSeriesRichesCaliforniaLiteralNuggets Author:Huell Howser
“Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.” TogetherGuyGirlBlackPartyGoldTrainNakedCaliforniaGymVeniceUpstairsBlack GirlBodybuilder Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger