1.
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
Richard Serra
2.
I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
Andy Hertzfeld
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All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
Judith Anderson
4.
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.
Chili Davis
5.
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
7.
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.
Errol Flynn
8.
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.
Emperor Norton
9.
If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.
William Saroyan
10.
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.
Conrad Hilton
12.
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
Willie Brown
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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
Cecil Beaton
14.
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
Mark Twain
17.
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
18.
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
Joe Morgan
19.
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
20.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.
Michael B. Jordan
21.
By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.
Mira Grant
22.
The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.
Eric Byrnes
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I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
Ezra Koenig