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Quotes About San Francisco

Tatcha is my favorite beauty brand. They were also founded in San Francisco. Their entire line is based off of geisha tradition and ritual. The line has transformed my skin.
~ Ayesha Curry
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.
~ Cesar Pelli
I come from Divisadero Street. Divisadero, from the Spanish word for 'division,' the street that at one time was the dividing line between San Francisco and the fields of the Presidio. Or it might be derived from the word divisar , meaning 'to gaze at something from a distance.' (There is a 'height' nearby called El Divisadero.) Thus a point from which you can look far into the distance
~ Michael Ondaatje
I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.
~ Gedde Watanabe
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
~ Freddy Fender
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
~ Eric Allin Cornell
She was twenty-three and single, still living on the streets in San Francisco, when Sylous first promised her true sight and a community that would follow her. They would find a place in the hills of Tennessee, hidden away for them alone. A terrible tribulation was coming to the world, he'd said, but he would protect them from that Fury if they followed him.
~ Ted Dekker
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
~ Tennessee Williams
I loved this-living as part of a community...Short of living on a commune, how could I import the feeling of belonging somewhere back into my own life? Quite simply, I could move back to California, where my family and oldest friends were. If I loved the city life but didn't fancy living across the country from everyone I loved, why not San Francisco? I wanted a life, and I no longer really equated life with work.
~ Julie Tilsner
psicoanálisis como vocación».[73] Lo metafísico seguía teniendo prioridad para él.[74] Así, entre 1938 y 1941 sacó tiempo para asistir a los seminarios de Bernfeld, un grupo de estudio que en 1942 dio lugar a la constitución del Instituto y Sociedad Psicoanalítica de San Francisco.
~ Kai Bird
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
~ Jose Ferreira
I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco.
~ Troy Carter
In December 2014, Uber held its annual holiday party on an unfurnished floor at its swank, mood-lit headquarters in San Francisco. Employees and investors attended in flamboyant attire from the Roaring '20s and drank at an open bar into the early morning hours.
~ Emily Chang
A nuestra especie no le queda más remedio que cambiar de actitud: efectivamente, como ya lo decía San Francisco de Asís, los animales son hermanos nuestros; vamos a tener que darles otro trato. Nada podrá detener esa revolución de mentalidad que ya está en marcha.
~ Franz-Olivier Giesbert
4 If you're going to San Francisco / Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair / You're going to meet some gentle people there.
~ Franz-Olivier Giesbert
I was living in San Francisco so I got back into yoga, bought myself a mountain bike and a puppy, and started living my life. And incidentally, I started making a record without realising it.
~ Darren Hayes
Yeah I love 'The Witches of Eastwick,' it's a classic, it's hilarious, I did a parody play in San Francisco and New York with Peaches Christ and Coco Peru.
~ Chad Michaels
I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
~ Larry Kramer
I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
~ Jon Oringer
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so.
~ Matt Gonzalez
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
~ Joanna Newsom
According to 'Star Trek' mythos, Starfleet Command - operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace - is located in San Francisco's Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century).
~ Seth Shostak
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
~ Walter Cronkite
Gjøa was later presented as a gift to the city of San Francisco, remaining on display in Golden Gate Park until 1972, when it was returned to Norway. It now resides in Oslo harbour, next to two other famous Norwegian ships, Fridtjof Nansen's Fram and Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki.
~ Stephen R. Bown