Famous Quotes & Sayings

Of all cities, San Francisco should be able to find a way to keep these theaters.

I feel like St. Francis will be challenging and a great opportunity for her. Her height and physical size are a plus for her. She has good hands and moves well around the basket.

Frank is a very patriotic man. He joined the Sons of the American Revolution late in life. Not because of Francis Scott Key, but because of Frank's great-great-great grandfather, John Ross Key.

Alice Cooper

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.

Patti Smith

I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'

Eugene Kennedy

From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.

We started off too slow and didn't seem to have our legs. I think they were itching to play because of the time off, and it was hard to get back into it. But give St. Francis credit. They made a run, and we didn't do a good job stopping it.

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

Willie McCovey

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Danny Meyer

I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.

Robin Williams

Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.

Gary Hall

I think that Francis Marion did the same.

Steve looked like, I think, the Steve Francis that you guys were used to watching last year and that we anticipate. He was aggressive, he was attacking, he did a good job defensively.

DeShawn Stevenson

Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve in New York.

I don't think it's over yet. We still have our heads up. St. Francis has to play Driscoll next week.

When you hear that date, it just can't help but jog your memory. You hear 9/11, it just makes you think of what happened. Plus, I think we played San Francisco the first game after 9/11.

At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.

Steve Frank

Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

Mike Scioscia

What Francisco did in 2002, ... was remarkable.

Carol Channing

We were raised together in Seattle and San Francisco until Dickie was 12,

John Breaux

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

The San Francisco garter snake is very imperiled, and we're just making progress on getting them back.

John Corey Whaley

I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

I'm happy to be in San Francisco ... but it would have been a good time to be a free agent.

Mario Batali

I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88.

Jim Toomey

I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.

Think about it. The 'Big One' hits San Francisco tomorrow and ruins most of the housing. Oakland is going to be busy, right?

Barry Bonds

I just feel like I want to go back to San Francisco and be with these guys, ... I'm ready to go home.

John Hammond

He's way too intriguing to pass up, ... And with Steve Francis there already, it really makes it very simple.

General managers (of San Francisco hotels) have told me that there is more than a handful (of hotel owners) who are in agreement,