What is Golden State?

  • (noun): A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes.
    Synonyms: California, CA, Calif.

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or golden:

    “... here hundreds sit and play Bingo; here the bright lights of Broadway burn through a sea haze; here Somebodies tumble over other Somebodies and over Nobodies as well.”
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I will find out where she has gone,
    And kiss her lips and take her hands;
    And walk among long dappled grass,
    And pluck till time and times are done
    The silver apples of the moon,
    The golden apples of the sun.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)