85 San Francisco Quotes for Instagram (with photos)
San Francisco is one of our favorite cities in the USA. We don’t mind the fog or the cold (hey we are from Canada!) SF is just a wonderful city break. In this post, we are sharing the coolest San Francisco quotes for Instagram, so get ready to be inspired!
San Francisco quotes for Instagram
San Francisco has only one drawback – ’tis hard to leave. – Rudyard Kipling
Money lives in New York. Power sits in Washington. Freedom sips cappuccino in a sidewalk cafe in San Francisco. – Joe Flower
There may not be a Heaven, but there is San Francisco. – Ashleigh Brilliant
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful. – Frank Lloyd Wright
East is East, and West is San Francisco. – O. Henry
Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady. – Norman Mailer
If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life. – William Saroyan
San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world. – Robert Redford
San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world — one of the really urbane communities in the United States — one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world. – Duke Ellington
You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is. – Don Johnson
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every house a poem, every dweller within immortal. This is the whole truth. – William Saroyan
San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. – Pat Montandon
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It’s a great setting for a horror story. – Christopher Moore
Quotes About San Francisco Sayings By Famous people & others
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. – Unknown
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality. – Paul Kanter
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
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there. – Brian Eno
San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home. – Benjamin F. Taylor
The extreme geniality of San Francisco’s economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States. – James Michener
It is a good thing the early settlers landed on the East Coast; if they’d landed in San Francisco first, the rest of the country would still be uninhabited. – Herbert Mye
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired to make San Francisco a city of artists. – William Henry Irwin
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I can walk down the streets of San Francisco, and here I’m normal. – Robin Williams
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it’s my kind of politics. It’s like being Jewish in front of Jewish people. – Elayne Boosler
As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don’t have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one, it’s a mushroom farm, so you know what that means. – Nancy Pelosi
San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I’m both of these, which is why I came here. – Michael Franti
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty. – Rudyard Kipling
I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic [of the 1960s] didn’t mushroom and envelop the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive. – Grace Slick
One day if I go to heaven… I’ll look around and say ‘It ain’t bad. But it ain’t San Francisco. – Herb Caen
San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world. – Robert Redford
The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here. – Billy Graham
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco. – Gene Fowler
I prefer a wet San Francisco to a dry Manhattan. – Larry Geraldi
To a traveler paying his first visit, it [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world. – Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Once I knew the city very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills, slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts… It had been kind to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency. – John Steinbeck
San Francisco is one of my favorite 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. – Ang Lee
It is a good thing the early settlers landed on the east coast… if they’d landed in San Francisco, the rest of the country would still be uninhabited. – Herbert Mye
I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited. – Hinton Helper
Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. – Tom Hanks
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. – William Saroyan
Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. You go there as a snarky New Yorker thinking it’s politically correct, it’s crunchy granola, it’s vegetarian, and it surprises you every time. It’s a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it’s dirty and nasty and wonderful. – Anthony Bourdain
I love this city. If I am elected, I’ll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody’s so friendly. – Robert Kennedy
San Francisco is one of my favorite 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. – Ang Lee
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
It is a rich, lusty city, rippling with people, with movement, with girls in summer dresses, with flowers, with color; one of the great and wonderful cities of the world the great seaport of the Pacific now, one of the great naval bases. Through it have poured a million men… And the sea is always just on the other side of those hills. – James Marlow
I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other. – Twiggy
I never dreamed I’d like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. – Julie Christie
Where else but in San Francisco would characters such as Sister Boom-Boom, a transvestite who dresses in a miniskirted nun’s habit, and a punk rocker named Jello Biafra run for seats on the Board of Supervisors? And where else would 75,000 runners dress like centipedes, gorillas, and six packs of beer to participate in the ‘moving masquerade ball’ otherwise known as the Bay to Breakers Race? – JoAnne Davidson
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life. – Imogen Cunningham
You wouldn’t think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight here, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills… And all the people are open and friendly. – Dylan Thomas
Funny San Francisco Captions
It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. – Oscar Wilde
Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. –
Anthony Bourdain
Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. – John Lennon
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That’s one of the town’s charms. – Errol Flynn
I was married once in San Francisco. I haven’t seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There’s no legal proof. Which means that earthquakes aren’t always bad. – W.C. Fields
Golden Gate Quotes San Francisco
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. – Peter James
Such was life in the Golden Gate: / Gold dusted all we drank and ate, / And I was one of the children told, / ‘We all must eat our peck of gold.’ – Robert Frost
Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities – I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends. – Ray Harryhausen
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars….We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South, and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North. We had a Capitol Burger – guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger. – Charles Kuralt
San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here… Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here. – Eddie Izzard
This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge. – Humphrey Bogart on Warner Bros.
The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren’t quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice. – George Carlin
The Golden Gate Bridge’s daily strip tease from enveloping stoles of mist to full frontal glory is still the most provocative show in town. – Mary Moore Mason
San Francisco Bay Area Quotes
I was born in San Francisco. I was raised in Oakland, so I’m, like, super Bay Area born, and, you know, it’s just really multicultural up there, and there’s a lot of subcultures just from, like, anything, like from rockabilly to, like, crazy punk scenes to, you know, a huge rap scene, and there are just all kinds of things you can do out there. – Kreayshawn
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it’s like coming home for me. – Richard Serra
I was watching ‘Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood’, ‘Sesame Street’, ‘Electric Company’, ‘Romper Room’, and ‘Villa Alegre!’ when I said to myself, ‘Hey, self! Wouldn’t it be fun to be one of those kids on the TV?’ My mom thought it was a pretty good idea, too… and she instantly moved us from the Bay Area to Malibu… nice. – Keith Coogan
I came to the Bay Area not just to play basketball but to explore business interests. – Andre Iguodala
In the deep corner of my heart, I’m a Chicagoan, but it’s been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area. – W. Kamau Bell
I’m a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco. – Ezra Koenig
I’m extremely proud I was born and raised in the Bay Area and loved representing Oakland. I started recording in the Bay Area and worked with a lot of different producers. But I always wanted to collaborate with different writers and get different perspectives. – Goapele
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. – Jose Ferreira
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I’ve been in earthquakes before. – Joe Morgan
Mark Twain Famous Quote San Francisco
I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved. – Mark Twain
San Francisco Love Quotes
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. – William Saroyan
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other city incites one to dream. – Georges Pompidou
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. – Walter Cronkite
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. – William Saroyan
San Francisco Quotes from Movies and Novels
The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There’s no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate! – Larry King, talk show host
It’s like Paris it’s soft, the breeze blows, the city may swelter but the hillers do fly over the bay is Oakland (ah me Hart Crane Melville and all ye assorted brother poets of the American night that once I thought would be my sacrificial altar and now it is but who’s to care, know, and I lost love because of it drunkard, dullard, poet)… – Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans
Fog spilled from the heights of San Francisco like the liquid it almost was. On better days it spread across the bay and took over Oakland street by street, a thing you saw coming, a change you watched happening to you, a season on the move. Where it encountered redwoods, the most local of rains fell. Where it found open space, its weightless pale passage seemed both endless and like the end of all things. It was a temporary sadness, the more beautiful for being sad, the more precious for being temporary. It was the slow song in minor that the rock-and-roll sun then chased away. – Jonathan Franzen, Purity
There is no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement, and colored construction paper. It’s the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons. – Dave Eggers, A Heartbeaking Work of Staggering Genius
After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco… – Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
No other American city has undergone such an earth-shaking cultural shift in such a short span. Today San Francisco is seen as the ‘Left Coast City’ the wild, frontier outpost of the American Dream… San Francisco values did not come into the world with flowers in their hair; they were born howling, in blood and strife… One of San Francisco’s more flowery laureates anointed it ‘the cool gray city of love.’ But the people who cling to its hills and hollows and know its mercurial temperament, the sudden juggernaut of sea fog and wind that can shroud the sun and chill the soul recognize San Francisco as a rougher beast. – David Talbot, Season of the Witch
As the years went by, San Francisco became not only my city but also my way of life. From the time I was a boy, I wanted to live in a place like my father’s theater world, a magic box filled with lavishly made-up women, extravagant gay men, and other larger-than-life characters. I wanted a world that could encompass all worlds. I found something close to it in this soft-lit city in the ocean mists. – David Talbot, Season of the Witch
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
So that’s a wrap! We hope you enjoyed this compilation of the best San Francisco quotes and are ready to book a trip to SF!
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