Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

H. L. Mencken

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

Jean de la Bruyere

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Margaret Cho

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

Mark Twain

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

Mark Twain

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

Huey Lewis

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Herb Caen

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Jeffrey Loria

San Antonio is a very viable market. If we can't play here, we'll play somewhere else.

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Sanctions weld together the state and the population.

It was total devastation. When I walked up to the church, I said 'Uh oh, this is the end.' The sanctuary was just demolished.

They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

Herb Caen

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

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Herb Caen

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Iris Chang

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Ezra Koenig

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

Christine Pelosi

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Chris O'Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

George W. Bush

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

George Orwell

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Jello Biafra

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Ian Bogost

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.