Best Francisco Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Hawaii is one of my special places. There's a feeling when I get off the plane - the way the air feels and smells sweet like ambrosia. I love San Francisco, Tokyo, Milan, the south of France.”

“I grew up in San Francisco and there's no seasons.”

“I loved San Francisco from the start. It was always great being here, playing here.”

“When I was 19, moving to San Francisco was my first time living away from home, and it had such a gorgeous energy.”

“Coming from Europe to San Francisco, nine hours difference, is too much.”

“Well, I am never going to forget the players, the loyal coaches and the memories that I have of being a part of the San Francisco 49er team.”

“San Francisco's my home town, you know.”

“San Francisco is like, the most expensive city to live in, in the United States.”

“The thing you gotta understand about L.A. is that everything is suburbia. Los Angeles isn't set up like San Francisco or New York.”

“San Francisco has always been a really special city to us. Every time we go, it holds that magic for us.”

“I knew that if I had an opportunity to play out the majority of my career in San Francisco, and hopefully my whole career in San Francisco, that was - it was an easy call for me.”

“I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.”

“I had decided on L.A. because I felt like I could handle the cost of living out there. It was just too difficult in San Francisco and New York.”

“I was a San Francisco fan when Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott and those guys where there. And I watched Joe Montana get cut and go to K.C. and still ball.”

“I was very involved in back of the house, and finding good people is by far the hardest thing. So, when you're living in a place like New York or San Francisco, where the cost of living is so high, finding great people is very hard. Even finding remotely reliable people.”

“I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.”

“I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.”

“No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.”

“San Francisco is a place that stands up for our LGBTQ communities.”

“San Francisco is a City for everyone and our government needs to work for all of our residents.”

“When I was growing up in San Francisco, one of the experiences that changed my life was my first paid internship - a summer job at The Family School.”

“It was great starting in San Francisco. I really think it's is the best place to start in the country.”

“I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.”

“The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.”

“I love San Francisco. I have a lot of memories there.”

“When I was growing up, I was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan. The New England Patriots have a similar mold and plan to win a lot of games - reminiscent to that Bill Walsh era.”

“I do think your environment really plays into how you create. I lived in San Francisco for a bit, and I felt like I lived in the Matrix - so my music had that paranoid-of-the-outside sound to it.”

“There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y'know what I mean?”

“My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.”

“I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to be a professional rapper, a touring rapper. I didn't think I had that talent level in me.”

“I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.”

“San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.”

“I don't want San Francisco to be just a place where people just move for opportunities.”

“Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's struggling to stay in San Francisco.”

“I love San Francisco!”

“As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world.”

“I don't regret any of the places I went in football. Everything gave me an experience or memories that I'll have forever. We had more success in San Francisco, but it was a great time everywhere. I always had fun.”

“I'm based in San Francisco, although I don't usually stay long in one place because we are always moving, we are always on the road. So most of the time, we stay in hotels.”

“I don't know how it plays in San Francisco. But I can tell you I came out, during a reelection campaign, in Indiana, while Mike Pence was the governor. And I wound up winning reelection by 80 percent.”

“I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.”

“In San Francisco, I lived in Bayview-Hunters Point.”

“If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.”

“Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.”

“I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.”

“I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.”

“San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.”

“I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco.”

“As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.”

“My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home.”

“I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.”

“I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.”

“I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!”

“I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.”

“I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.”

“I love San Francisco!”

“Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.”

“We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.”

“I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.”

“In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai restaurant, and it's right next to the 'Great American Hall'. I'm there all the time whenever I'm in town; that's my spot.”

“I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.”

“I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.”

“You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.”

“I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.”

“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.”

“I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.”

“It was totally insane doing goat yoga in San Francisco.”

“I would love to throw out the first pitch at AT&T Park at a San Francisco Giants' game.”

“In San Francisco, the majority of the restaurants are ingredient-driven. In New York, that is true as well, but there's also a greater focus on technique.”

“When I started touring and coming to San Francisco, especially, I felt the most at home in America, other than in New York.”

“I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.”

“San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.”

“I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.”

“I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service on AT&T. My iPhone simply could not reliably make and hold a phone call. Not just in New York and San Francisco, where I spend a lot of time, and where AT&T's service has been notoriously bad for years.”

“Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.”

“My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.”

“I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.”

“Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.”

“I love San Francisco.”

“My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in San Francisco, and also supplied motion picture projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always around theater people.”

“My wife and I had dinner in San Francisco four or five times.”

“San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.”

“I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.”

“I remember I was in a San Francisco nightclub, and I started talking to some girl, and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on, what's your name?' You know, 'Where are you from?' I go, 'I'm from Iran.' And literally, she just looked at me and walked away.”

“I like going to San Francisco. It's close to where I grew up.”

“I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.”

“San Francisco needs to become a city where you have late night offerings.”

“I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.”

“When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.”

“In San Francisco, our businesses, healthcare services, workforce, and housing will always be Open to All.”

“I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.”

“I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.”

“If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have.”

“I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewery and did a little theater. It was great. I'd do Shakespeare and stuff like that.”

“I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.”

“I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.”

“I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.”

“For every family in liberal San Francisco that went solar with SunRun in 2010, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made the switch to our solar power service.”

“One of the issues we face here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is a sense that the people all around us are as conversant in startup and tech culture as we are. But we need to remember, and remind ourselves repeatedly, that we're a small minority in a larger population.”

“One of the reasons I moved to San Francisco was the weather. And then I realized that I really don't like being outside.”

“I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.”