Building Quote by Herb Caen

I love San Francisco. I have a lot of memories there.

— Rosalynn Carter

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

— Willie Brown

I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn't midcentury modern. I'm…

— Eric Dane

My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Jack London

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

— Herb Caen

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of…

— Les Claypool

As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

— Barry Jenkins

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

When I was 19, moving to San Francisco was my first time living away from home, and it had such a gorgeous energy.

— Nicola Coughlan