San Francisco Quotes - Page 2

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  Jack London

  Memories, Gone, Remains

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7702, Delphi Classics

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• In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

  Conrad Hilton

  Bay Area, World, Hospitality

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• What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

  H. L. Mencken

  United States, Subtle, Newcomers

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• I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Marriage, Fire

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• I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

  Mark Twain

  Treated

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Cities, People, Mad

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 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.5033, e-artnow

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• It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.

  Al Michaels

  Team, Cowboy, Numbers

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• Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren’t required to do so.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Years, Cities, Energy

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Opportunity, Years, Class

  The House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

  Julia Child

  Beautiful, Free Spirit, Looks

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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• The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

  George Saunders

  Dubai, Years, Venice

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.22, A&C Black

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• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, People

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• 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.

  Barbara Boxer

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Stupid

  "Jews in the Senior Chamber" by Dan Klein, www.tabletmag.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

  Robert Menzies

  New York, Cities, Two

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• I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Dog, Beach, Exercise

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• San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

  Christopher Moore

  Beautiful, Dark, Light

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• Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

  Willie Brown

  Cities, Bay Area, May

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• I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

  Herb Caen

  Heaven, Doe, Looks

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

  Don Johnson

  Block, Issues, Different

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• 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.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mean, Mushrooms, Wells

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• I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

  Julie Christie

  Fog, Cities, London

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• I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Gun, Knives, Pistols

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