San Francisco Bay Area Quotes

#1. I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war ... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

Pete Stark

#2. The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

David Batstone

#3. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#4. She ran a streak of foundation under each eye, highlighter down the bridge of her nose, and bronzer beneath each cheekbone - a layer of armor before battle. Because that's what these parties were to her, a war on all the heartbreaking boys in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jessica Taylor

#5. The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Jose Ferreira

#6. Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

Ho Chi Minh

#7. The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Mitch Kapor

#9. The cool, grey city of love.

George Sterling

#10. I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Mark Twain

#11. You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Ezra Koenig

#13. The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

Billy Graham

#14. I prefer a society which accepts that I have no choice, and does not pretend that I have. I prefer a God who does what he wills, and rules as he desires, and enjoins on me not to prevent anything against its destiny.

Dorothy Dunnett

#15. All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal's office to live a creative life. Or if you do worry that you need a permission slip - THERE, I just gave it to you. I

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

Ethan Zuckerman

#17. Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

Lucy Hale

#18. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#19. A warm, tickling touch crashed me back to earth. Maybe it sent me straight to heaven. Either way, it dragged me out of hell.

Katie McGarry

#20. Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

Conrad Hilton

#22. Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Frank Sinatra

#23. The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

John Cleese

#24. [Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.

Alice Hoffman