San Quotes - page 3

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting. (Gavin Newsom)
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have. View quote
Gavin Newsom
But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. View quote
Gavin Newsom
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy. View quote
Gavin Newsom
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options. View quote
Gavin Newsom
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. View quote
Gavin Newsom
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate. View quote
Gavin Newsom
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. View quote
Gavin Newsom
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans. View quote
Gavin Newsom
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. View quote
Gavin Newsom
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive. (Gavin Newsom)
I used to be a street singer in San Francisco. View quote
Gedde Watanabe
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. View quote
George Halas
I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there. View quote
Jane Wiedlin
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? View quote
John Shelton Reed
I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop. View quote
John Starks
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. View quote
Julian Castro
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous. View quote
Junipero Serra
In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. View quote
Leslie Charteris
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so. View quote
Matt Gonzalez
Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside. (Michael O'Donoghue)
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967. View quote
R. Lee Ermey
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend. View quote
Robert Ballard
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition. View quote
Robert McChesney