California Press Berkeley

Famous quotes containing the words california, press and/or berkeley:

    “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.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “In those rare days, the press was seldom known to snarl or bark,
    But sweetly sang of men in pow’r, like any tuneful lark;
    Grave judges, too, to all their evil deeds were in the dark;
    And not a man in twenty score knew how to make his mark.
    Oh the fine old English Tory times;”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1890)

    “I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)