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San Francisco is my hometown — well, I was technically born just across the Bay, in Oakland.
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But San Francisco most treasured childhood memories are associated with this place. I am now living on the other side the globe. San Francisco, quotes about San FranciscoYou are an amazing way to get me back home.
- These are my favorite quotes. San Francisco Inspire you to do something and share a bit of that San FranciscoMagic to anywhere you are
- You can use them for any purpose. San Francisco Instagram These quotes can be used for captions, journaling, inspiration, or just to remind you of a trip you enjoyed.
- My Favorite San Francisco Quotes
- “I left my heart in San Francisco.”
- — Tony Bennet, singer
- “San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.”
- — John Steinbeck, author
- “San Francisco She put on quite a show. She was visible across the bay from the road that bypasses Sausalito, and ends at the Golden Gate Bridge. The afternoon sun painted her white and gold—rising on her hills like a noble city in a happy dream. It is easier to live in a city built on hills than flat-land areas. New York makes its own hills with craning buildings, but this gold and white acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of the Pacific sky was a stunning thing, a painted thing like a picture of a medieval Italian city which can never have existed.”
- — John Steinbeck, author
- “America only has three cities: New York, San Francisco New Orleans and, respectively. Everything else is Cleveland.”
- — Tennessee Williams, playwright
- “‘What brings you up to the City?’ he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there’s only one city.”
- — Ross Macdonald, author
- “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, journalist and humorist
- “Isn’t it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”— Herb Caen, journalist and humorist
- “The number of foggy days over the cityIs never reported, reportedly. But take it from me— there’s enough to satisfy everyone, and dissatisfy somebody.”
- — Herb Caen, journalist and humorist
- “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, architect
- “What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.”
- — Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
- “San Francisco has only one drawback – ’tis hard to leave.”
- — Rudyard Kipling, author
- “San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people.”
- — Rudyard Kipling, author
- “Leaving San FranciscoIt’s like saying goodbye to a sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.”
- — Walter Cronkite, journalist
- “San Francisco itself is art… every block is a short story, every hill a novel, every home a poem.”
- — William Saroyan, novelist and playwright
- “If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.”
- — William Saroyan, novelist and playwright
- “East is East, and West is San Francisco.”
- — O. Henry, short story writer
- “I’m just mad for San Francisco. It’s like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.”
- — Twiggy, model
- “Every morning in San Francisco was a bit like waking up on the edge of the earth: beautiful and damp and wild, full of the strange music people make, open-armed, into the wind.”
- — Elizabeth Percer, author
- “Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.”
- — Anthony Bourdain, author, chef, and travel personality
- “San Francisco, city of dreaming spires.”
- — Eddie Izzard, comic
- “But oh, San FranciscoIt is! It is and has everything – you wouldn’t think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.”
- — Dylan Thomas, poet
- “Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.”
- — Susanna Kaysen, author
“Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.”
— John Lennon, singer
“I can walk down the streets of San Francisco, and here I’m normal.”
— Robin Williams, actor
“Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco.”
— Gene Fowler, journalist
“San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home.”
— Benjamin F. Taylor, poet
I prefer a humid environment. San FranciscoTo a dry Manhattan
— Larry Geraldi, writer
“To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco]Has the potential to attract attention to a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.”
— Fitz Hugh Ludlow, writer
“Suddenly [we]At a height we could see ahead the beautiful white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.”
— Jack Kerouac, author
“It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.”
— Oscar Wilde, author
“A bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast.”
— Rebecca Solnit, author
“The morning, like all San Francisco mornings, promised spring. In California, the seasons come daily: spring, the dewy mornings draped lightly in gray mist; summer, when the sun burns through and rises directly overhead at midday; afternoon autumns, crisp breezy, when colors show off and the air smells clean into twilight; winter is the night.”
— Elizabeth Stark, author
“The light of San Franciscois a sea lightan island lightAnd the light of fogblanketing the hillsdrifting in at nightthrough the Golden Gateto lie on the city at dawn…”— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
“‘We are so lucky to live here,’ he would say, and she couldn’t disagree. They were lucky that the earth had conspired to heap up such startling beauty in one place, and they were lucky that it hadn’t all fallen apart yet in a geological catastrophe.”
— Chris Adrien, author
“That, my dear detective, was the other San Francisco. You’ve probably seen it before, just out of the corner of your eye. You’ve probably dismissed it all your life.”
— Laura Oliva, author
“I moved to San FranciscoBecause the mask of kindness is at least kind. It is kind. And all the people who would sit back and comment on the garishness of the costumes, the hollowness of the dialogue, the lack of divine conviction, well, all those people are either dead or fifteen years old.”
— Jay Caspian King, author
“San Francisco is where you come when you want to see people looking like who they truly are.”
— Mark Childress, novelist
“I think the beauty of San Francisco is that you can skip without really freaking anybody out.”
— Chris Reifsteck, source unknown
“San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.”
— Paul Kantner, musician
“The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.”
— Billy Graham, evangelist
“You are fortunate to live here. If I was your President, I would tax you for living here. San Francisco.”
— Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president
“This city is a point upon a map of fog.”
— Ambrose Bierce, author
“If free speech and individuality are American characteristics, there is no place more American than San Francisco.”
— Desi del Valle, actress
“I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.”
— Mark Twain, novelist (supposedly)
“California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.”
— James Bryce, author
“What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.”
— H.L. Mencken, journalist
“There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.”
— Ashleigh Brilliant, author
“San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities”
— Cecil Beaton, photographer
“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, chef and cookbook author
“[San Francisco] is the friendliest city in the world.”
— Joe DiMaggio, baseball player
“Like its namesake, San FranciscoIt is open to all sentient creatures. The emotionally and spiritually wounded, in particular, have always come here looking for freedom and change, for a place to grow and be themselves.”
— Jim Crotty, author
“The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. California’s rest is Beach Boys country. San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real.”
— Eric Maisel, author
“When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco, you can always lean against it.”
— Source unknown
San Francisco Instagram Captions
California dreaming on such a winter’s day…
West Coast, Best Coast
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…
Infatuation with San FranciscoYou can take one cable car at once.
Stay strong San Francisco.
A Golden State of Mind
I had to leave my heart in San Francisco…
San FranciscoAlways a good idea.
San Francisco, I’ve really missed you.
Cute San Francisco Instagram CaptionsCouples
My boyfriend and I went to the Bay.
Love the SF Bae.
Bae Area
Let’s run away to San Francisco.
San Francisco may be view-tiful, but nothing’s more beautiful than you.
