1. “If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.” ― William Saroyan
2. “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
3. “It is a rich, lusty city, rippling with people, with movement, with girls in summer dresses, with flowers, with color; one of the great and wonderful cities of the world — the great seaport of the Pacific now, one of the great naval bases. Through it have poured a million men… And the sea is always just on the other side of those hills.” ― James Marlow
4. “I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.” ― Twiggy
5. “Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco.” ― Gene Fowler
6. “San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
7. ”No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.” ― – William Saroyan
8. ”San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I’m both of these, which is why I came here.” ― Michael Franti
9. “Money lives in New York. Power sits in Washington. Freedom sips cappuccino in a sidewalk cafe in San Francisco.” ― Joe Flower
10. “Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.” ― Anthony Bourdain
11. ”San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It’s a great setting for a horror story.” ― Christopher Moore
12. ”Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco.” ― Gene Fowler
13. “San Francisco has only one drawback: ’tis hard to leave.” ― Rudyard Kipling
14. ”San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
15. “East is East, and West is San Francisco.” ― O. Henry
16. “San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.” ― Robert Redford
17. “I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.” ― Mark Twain
18. ”Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. You go there as a snarky New Yorker thinking it’s politically correct, it’s crunchy granola, it’s vegetarian, and it surprises you every time. It’s a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it’s dirty and nasty and wonderful.” ― Anthony Bourdain
19. “It’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco.” ― Oscar Wilde
20. ”One day if I go to heaven… I’ll look around and say ‘It ain’t bad. But it ain’t San Francisco.” ― Herb Caen
21. ”San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.” ― Imogen Cunningham
22. ”I don’t know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you’re never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.”- Gary Snyder
23. “One day if I go to heaven … I’ll look around and say, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’” – Herb Caen
24. “San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it’s my kind of politics. It’s like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.” ― Elayne Boosler
25. ”San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every house a poem, every dweller within immortal. This is the whole truth.” ― William Saroyan
26. ”San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus in the world….one of the really urbane communities in the United States…one of the truly cosmopolitan places – and for many, many years, it has always had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world.” ― Duke Ellington
27. ”San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.” ― Pat Montandon
