San Francisco Quotes
(mostly culled from here and here):
"It's a good thing the early settlers landed on the East Coast; if they'd landed in San Francisco first, the rest of the country would still be uninhabited."
Herbert Mye
"Everybody has a favorite city. I have two, London and San Francisco...This fortuitous mating of marine grandeur and terrestrial snugness is what makes the place, to me, the most individual and engaging of American cities."
Alistair Cooke
English-born journalist and television personality
"It has been said that all great cities of history have been built on bodies of water--Rome on the Tiber, Paris on the Seine, London on the Thames, New York on the Hudson. If this is a criterion of a city's greatness, surely San Francisco ranks in the first magnitude among cities of the world. For never was a metropolis more dominated by any natural feature than San Francisco by its bay."
Harold Gilliam
"When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco, you can always lean against it."
Unknown
"Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. "
Walter Cronkite
"San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality."
Paul Kantner
"You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away."
John Steinbeck
"San Francisco has only one drawback. 'Tis hard to leave."
Rudyard Kipling
"The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here."
Billy Graham
"We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco."
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?"
Herb Caen
Compare with this page of Los Angeles quotations...
(mostly culled from here and here):
"It's a good thing the early settlers landed on the East Coast; if they'd landed in San Francisco first, the rest of the country would still be uninhabited."
Herbert Mye
"Everybody has a favorite city. I have two, London and San Francisco...This fortuitous mating of marine grandeur and terrestrial snugness is what makes the place, to me, the most individual and engaging of American cities."
Alistair Cooke
English-born journalist and television personality
"It has been said that all great cities of history have been built on bodies of water--Rome on the Tiber, Paris on the Seine, London on the Thames, New York on the Hudson. If this is a criterion of a city's greatness, surely San Francisco ranks in the first magnitude among cities of the world. For never was a metropolis more dominated by any natural feature than San Francisco by its bay."
Harold Gilliam
"When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco, you can always lean against it."
Unknown
"Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. "
Walter Cronkite
"San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality."
Paul Kantner
"You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away."
John Steinbeck
"San Francisco has only one drawback. 'Tis hard to leave."
Rudyard Kipling
"The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here."
Billy Graham
"We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco."
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?"
Herb Caen
Compare with this page of Los Angeles quotations...
posted by Kevin at
9/22/2004 02:15:00 AM
