Born Quote by Will Rogers

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

— Jack Kenny

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

— Benjamin Clementine

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my…

— Herodotus

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of…

— Bill de Blasio

“When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City”. Of course it was the only city we knew,…

— John Steinbeck

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

— Orson Bean

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town…

— Mithila Palkar

Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.

— Paul Smith

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

— Mike Binder

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

— Geoffrey West

San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States -…

— Duke Ellington

I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why?…

— Steve Perry