NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“It’s kind of like graduating from high school and going to college.

It’s bittersweet. There are some customers I know will come up and see us

[in Irvine]. But they won’t drive up there every day.”

-- Britta Pulliam, owner of Britta’s Cafe on Main Street, on closing

up the popular restaurant today after 14 years. The cafe will reopen in

Irvine’s University Town Center in the fall.

“One of the things I like about this sport is that you have these kids

on the water four hours a day. All that time, every decision is in their

own hands.”

-- Terry Schilling, chairman of the Balboa National Pram Championship,

which was held June 30 in Newport Harbor. The championship is for sailors

between the ages of 11 and 15.

“There is nothing that can compare with the undying friendship of one

senior for another.”

-- Aviva Goelman, director of the Costa Mesa Senior Center, on seniors

making romantic attachments at the center. At least seven couples have

been formed there this year.

“Every time I bicycle around the Back Bay, I say ‘Thank God for the

Robinsons,’ because they saved one of the greatest areas of open space. .

. . It’s like saving Central Park for the city of New York.”

-- Jack Skinner, Newport Beach environmentalist, on fellow

environmentalists Frances and Frank Robinson. Frances Robinson died June

30 of heart failure. She was 82.

“Every cottage dweller I’ve talked to is convinced that the state is

going to let them rot. These things are living organisms. . . . They’re

buildings that act and react to the environment.”

-- Bruce Hostetter, executive director of the Crystal Cove Community

Trust, on why the trust filed suit Tuesday to keep State Parks from

evicting cove residents from their cottages today

“This is another delay in the process that opens this [beach] up to

public use. We’re surprised by it, but we don’t think it has any merit.”

-- Roy Stearns, spokesman for State Parks, on the Crystal Cove

Community Trust lawsuit

“We certainly appreciate the time we had here. We will miss it.”

-- Dolly Shatford, a Crystal Cove cottage resident, on leaving