Christina Tosi Quotes

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

Golden Gate

To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.

San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.

But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

San Francisco, coolest place ever.

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

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.

I love the Bay. I was there for four years.

My slightly scary moment while travelling was when I decided to run across the Golden Gate Bridge in California. The weather was unbearably cold, and by the time I got to the bridge, it was already 8 P.M. I had about an hour to run across and come back, as the gate would shut by 9.

I love coming back around Northern California.

I'm from the Bay Area.

Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one of the many beautiful places along the Pacific Coast - but that's all. Once you put the bridge there, you distinguish it from any other place in the world.

I'm proud to call the Bay Area my home.

California: The west coast of Iowa.

San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.