

"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" - Oscar Wilde
"One day if I do go to heaven~ I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. " - Herb Caen
"No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living" - William Saroyan
"It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else -- it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit~. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?" - Julia Child
"The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco." - Mark Twain
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" - Oscar Wilde
"San Francisco has only one drawback. ''Tis hard to leave"- Rudyard Kipling
"San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home" - Benjamin F.Taylor
"San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth." - William Saroyan Author
"Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady" - Norman Mailer,author and frequent visitor
"You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away."John Steinbeck
"I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City"~Robert Kennedy
"When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco, you can always lean against it."~Unknown
"I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are Free."~Luisa Tetrazzini,San Francisco's all time favorite soprano, on occasion of breaking her New York contract





