San Francisco Quotes

San Francisco Quote of the day

As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

The City that knows how.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady