San francisco Quotes · Page 6

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

— Tab Hunter

I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.

— Chloe Benjamin

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

— Janet Varney

Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

— Bonobo

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

— Michael O'Donoghue

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

— Scott McKenzie

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

— Steve Young

If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

— Anonymous

When I was a kid I had a ball in San Francisco because my Uncle Lou was a gripman on the California…

— Jackie Coogan

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if…

— Boots Riley

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks.…

— Grace Slick

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

— Michael Franti

I don't want San Francisco to be just a place where people just move for opportunities.

— London Breed

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

— Nick Johnson

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

— H. L. Mencken

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

— Gary Cole

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life…

— Tycho

“Aleksander’s feet cut through the fog that had engulfed around them as he kept the two women in his sight. The two…

— Nicole Eglinger

Homelessness isn't just an issue in San Francisco. It's an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need…

— London Breed

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994]…

— Ishmael Reed

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then…

— Susan Orlean

“Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water.…

— Rick Riordan

Throughout her political career, Vice President Harris has never shied away from issues of race. In fact, the former senator from California,…

— Jonathan Capehart

One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you…

— Christopher Owens

“Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation Delivered on December 8, 1941 Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and…

— Jack LaLanne

“Robert H. Lustig, professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, displayed full mastery of the term and even…

— Nick Riggle

“Home, to me, was any place by my mother’s side. Since my mother’s death, the idea of home has assumed many forms.…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

I've worked in the gay clubs in Moscow, and the big cities. They're much more tolerant. It's the small cities where you…

— Amanda Lepore

The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California…

— Eric Maisel

... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a…

— Tina Modotti

“What about San Francisco?" "What about it?" "Did you like it?" She shrugged. "It was O.K." "Just O.K.?" She laughed. "Good God!"…

— Armistead Maupin

I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.

— Bruce Vilanch

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

— Dashiell Hammett

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

— Jack London

I loved San Francisco from the start. It was always great being here, playing here.

— Dennis Schroder

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

— Cecil Beaton

The teacher said define Cultural Diversity and this dude said, 'San Francisco.'

— Anonymous

I grew up in San Francisco and there's no seasons.

— Eva Victor

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

— Rosalynn Carter