Bay Area Quotes

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

  Billy Graham

  Beautiful, San Francisco, Heaven

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• A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Sex, Desire

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

  Richard Serra

  Home, Coming Back, Areas

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• All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

  Judith Anderson

  Spirit, Wonderful, Environment

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  House, Magic, Four

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• I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

  Chili Davis

  Careers, Excitement, Areas

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  San Francisco, Drawbacks, Hard

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.5055, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  Pete Stark

  War, Smart, Thinking

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• Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Paris, San Francisco

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• 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

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Cities, San Francisco

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  William Saroyan

  Art, Block, Home

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• It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wall, Fog, Blue

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin

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• I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

  Gary Snyder

  Sight, Cities, San Francisco

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

  Herb Caen

  Nice, San Francisco, People

  Herb Caen (1958). “New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area”

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• San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

  Paul Kantner

  Reality, Squares, San Francisco

  "Paul Kantner Tribute and Interview". Interview with Harvey Kubernik, cavehollywood.com. February 8, 2016.

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Crazy, Cities, San Francisco

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• 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.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Rivers, San Francisco, Hudson River

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Squares, Feet, San Francisco

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

  Herb Caen

  San Francisco, Heaven, One Day

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• I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Home, Men, Yankees

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• The cool, grey city of love.

  George Sterling

  Cities, San Francisco, Grey

  George Sterling (1921). “Sails and Mirage”

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

  Errol Flynn

  Night, San Francisco, Towns

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• The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

  James A. Michener

  Cities, San Francisco, Political

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• Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.

  William Henry Irwin

  Spring, Adventure, Journey

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• Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

  Frank Norris

  New York, Nashville, Cities

  Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society

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