San Francisco Bay Area Quotes

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 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.

I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

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

I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.

Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

The Bay Area for me has provided the most stability and it's definitely provided life-changing opportunities for myself, for my family, so I'm incredibly grateful for all that's gone on these past five years.

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

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

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.

I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

I was born in Oakland and grew up, probably about five miles from Oakland, in Hayward. And Hayward was OK. Like, Hayward wasn't - very much a working-class area and had definitely went through a decline and is now, seemingly, coming back around, which is nice to see.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do and what I enjoy - and I don't know another place on the planet that would be as fascinating to cover.