Top 430 San Quotes

San Antonio is like a military town. It’s like literally – when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
Steve Earle
I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.
Jason Kidd
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
Brian Ferneyhough
Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws.
Lawrence M. Krauss
I would watch San Antonio play and see plays I recognized from the Russian team, the Yugoslavian team.
Toni Kukoc
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I’ve been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
J. R. Moehringer
The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.
Frances Beinecke
I had a big step here in San Antonio, good help, great work. I learned a lot. Everybody helped me, great and smart people. They helped me a lot and made me better player.
Boban Marjanovic
Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.
Cindy Sheehan
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
Gary Cole
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I’m still always moving.
Gus Van Sant
What draws us to a city like San Francisco is the same thing that draws entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers to WeWork: it’s the creative atmosphere, the technical sophistication, and the strong sense of community.
Miguel McKelvey
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.
Roman Coppola
When I look at the pictures on my wall of San Diego or pop in highlight tapes of the Super Bowl, I’m reminded of where I want to be.
Joel Glazer
I’ve played D&D for years. I’m a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
Brian Posehn
You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony Bourdain
Homelessness isn’t just an issue in San Francisco. It’s an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need to support policies that address our twin troubles of housing affordability and homelessness at the state-level.
London Breed
My favorite afternoon snack as a child in San Diego was a still-steaming flour tortilla purchased at the taqueria down the street from my school, and I’ve yearned for them ever since I moved away.
Samin Nosrat
I love San Francisco. I have a lot of memories there.

I love San Francisco. I have a lot of memories there.
Rosalynn Carter
Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn’t any fun. I didn’t like the people I was playing with. They didn’t like me.
Ryan Leaf
San Francisco is like, the most expensive city to live in, in the United States.
Patti Harrison
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and when I began anchoring, I had short, stubbly pieces of hair. And trying to report in San Francisco with fog meant my hair swelled.
Soledad O’Brien
I don’t know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I’m sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.
Krist Novoselic
My home is San Francisco – that is definitely what I consider my home.
Winona Ryder
The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.
Brian Krzanich
San Anita is a beautiful track. It’s not too far from my house in L.A., and it’s a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run.
Kevin Connolly
In 2004, I was visiting my cousins in San Francisco and we were in a restaurant talking in Punjabi. We suddenly saw heads turn. And one of the Americans at the restaurant abused us and called my cousins, ‘turban-headed Osamas.’ That strengthened my resolve to make a film that highlights the issue.
Puneet Issar
I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn’t until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.
Andra Day
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.
Rabih Alameddine
Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious efforts.
London Breed
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.
Jim Norton
San Francisco’s my home town, you know.
Jackie Coogan
In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
J. Michael Bishop
I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.
Chloe Benjamin
When I’m not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We’ve been here since ’94.
Elizabeth Pena
The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
Don Winslow
Playing in Milan is never easy because the San Siro always commands great performances.
Massimiliano Allegri
Willie Roaf kicked my butt a couple of times. Larry Allen was a guard, but one time in San Francisco he took me with one hand and threw me out of the play. Walter Jones was pretty tough, too.
Terrell Suggs
I love San Francisco for the music culture. There’s this vibe there that I can’t find anywhere else in the world. Easily one of the best places on the sea coast.
Tash Sultana
At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I’d love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.
Shervin Pishevar
As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
Gavin Newsom
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack London
I came to San Antonio without knowing anything about the city.
Manu Ginobili
I can’t tell you how nice and genuine the people of San Antonio are… it reminds me a lot of Australia.
Patty Mills
I’m a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
Ezra Koenig
What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco – give some time to the tech community.
Ed Lee
I couldn’t be happier in San Jose. They’re a class organization.
Joe Thornton
San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn’t even try to model yourself after because it’s just special.
David Cohen
When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.
Stewart Butterfield
I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fer

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
Cheech Marin
I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
Rachel Kushner
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
Eric Allin Cornell
I live in San Francisco, and I love it.
Ayesha Curry
We’d been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
Daniel Woodrell
130 of Automattic’s 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
Matt Mullenweg
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.
Daniel Humm
A part of me will stay at La Real and San Sebastian.
Carlos Vela
With San Cisco, young kids are more willing to yell at whoever is standing on stage. The difference between the yelling and the quietness is if the older crowd are quiet, they’re showing you respect. When you do get a cheer back from them, it’s special because they are actually listening.
Montaigne
With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.
London Breed
The Chargers are a huge San Diego asset.
Kevin Faulconer
There were ‘big stars’ at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.
Phil Collins