San Francisco Quotes - Page 12

• San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

  Ambrose Bierce

  People, Lasts

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• If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

  China Mieville

  Brave, Trying, Gone

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• How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

  James Patterson

  Heart, Thinking, Cities

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• In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes . . . nothing is sacred.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Years, California

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• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  Calamity Jane

  Umpires, California, Territory

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

  Alan Watts

  Beach, California, Venice

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen & the Beat Way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

  Sara Zarr

  Desire

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• I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

  Irene Dunne

  Country, Spring, Ocean

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• 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

  Robert Hunter

  July, Sky, Heaven

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

  Jack Kenny

  Cities, Size, Assets

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• God! I loove this city!

  Herb Caen

  Cities

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• This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world. I love no city more than this one. Where else could I sing outdoors on Christmas Eve?

  Luisa Tetrazzini

  Cities, United States, World

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• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  Larry Kramer

  New York, Fighting, Gay

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• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

  Les Claypool

  Nice, Interesting, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

  Iris Chang

  Chinese, Special, Firsts

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• I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

  Peter Coyote

  Writing, College, Creative

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• I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

  Roman Coppola

  Home, Years, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

  Harry S. Truman

  Justice, Important, Today

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, People

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2009

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

  Nick Johnson

  Thinking, Laid Back, Sacramento

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• I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

  Ezra Koenig

  Fans, Bay Area, Areas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.

  William Lucking

  Years, Bridges, Names

  "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.

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• 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.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Believe, Common Sense, Residents

  "NRA to File Suit Against San Francisco Gun Ban". www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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• It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.

  Terrell Owens

  People, World, Matter

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