San Francisco Quotes - Page 4

• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, Years, California

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

  Gene Fowler

  Men, Cities, Two

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• Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Weather, Twenties

  Attributed in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

  John Lennon

  Crazy, Cities, People

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• Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

  George Sterling

  Heart, Eye, Borders

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• If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

  John Phillips

  Flower, Hair, People

  "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" (song) (1967)

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• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  Tony Bennett

  Travel, Morning, Stars

  Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

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• 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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Easter, Islands, People

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

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• But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking

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• I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

  Winona Ryder

  Girl, Dream, Play

  "Winona Ryder Wants to Be in a Philip Roth Adaptation". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Children, California, Towns

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• You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, New York, Smart

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• San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, America, Cities

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• San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

  Chita Rivera

  Angel, America, Wells

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• If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

  Jeff Garcia

  Change, Moving, Opportunity

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• Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

  Elizabeth Falkner

  Wine, Blow, Details

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• In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

  Tom Peters

  Morning, Business, Writing

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

  Terence Stamp

  Cities, Magic, Vancouver

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• California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

  James Bryce

  Country, California, Unions

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• Maximum Rocknroll
  didn't have a map section.
  How was I supposed to know
  that Berkeley was not
  a neighborhood of San Francisco?

  Bucky Sinister

  Maps, Neighborhood, Berkeley

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• When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Issues, United States, Unions

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.420, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, New Orleans

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• Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!'

  Eric Burdon

  New Orleans, Numbers, Car

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• Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Important, Rice

  "Mr. Mike’s America: A Comic’s Trek with SNL’s First Head Writer" by Paul Slansky, Playboy, paulslansky.com. March 1983.

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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