Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

John Breaux

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

The old San Francisco was dead. It will be a different city. It has to be different. Its needs are different, and its people will be different.

Craig Venter

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

Barry Bonds

San Francisco is my home. That's the love of my life right there. Thinking that there could be a possibility, just hypothetically, to go somewhere else and DH or something like that, I really don't want to think about that at this time right now.

Jack London

San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of thousands of refugees.

Steve Frank

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

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

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

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

Mike Scioscia

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

Carol Channing

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

I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.

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.

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.

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.

They work in tandem so you can't really get a street-cleaning ticket in San Francisco unless we're really street cleaning.

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.

Mark Twain

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco

The home is where I am. If I think that I am 'away' from home at any stage then I will go crazy. If I think of San Francisco as my home and Hong Kong as away from home I will never be happy,

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.