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
The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here. — Billy Graham
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me. — Richard Serra
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality. — Paul Kantner
God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city. — Gavin Newsom
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home. — Rickey Henderson
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. — Anthony Bourdain
There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth. — Fulton J. Sheen
Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home. — Christina Milian
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave. — Rudyard Kipling
Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere. — Willie Stargell
I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back! — Nick Johnson
I'm taking my talents to South Beach. — LeBron James
Short Bay Area Quotes
We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland. — Jim Otto
I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do. — Chuck Zito
I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform. — Rickey Henderson
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people. — Carter Burwell
Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan. — Hugh Douglas
The Silicon Valley model is a builder and seller. — Naval Ravikant
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. — Susanna Kaysen
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. — Eric S. Raymond
I'm an everything Baltimore fan. — Josh Charles
I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bay Area Image Quotes
Whatever you use to keep the pain at bay robs you of the fleck and nuggets of gold that feeling grief will give you.
Area Quotes
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous. — Kathryn Kuhlman
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority. — T. D. Jakes
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway. — Igor Sikorsky
Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security. — Li Keqiang
Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate. — Neal Cassady
The key to branding, especially for smaller firms, is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas. — Philip Kotler
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. — Etty Hillesum
Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him. — Joyce Meyer
Bay Quotes
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love. — Peter Jackson
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. — Jim Gerlach
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
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay. — William Kentridge
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. — Robert. L. Ehrlich
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal. — Wally Schirra
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. — Vince Lombardi
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. — Gerald R. Ford
So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force. — E. Howard Hunt
the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct. — Melanie Klein
Gray Area Quotes
The effects of obesity on the brain mimic those of Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimaging data shows that obesity and Alzheimer’s disease are linked to gray matter atrophy in brain regions involved in attention and areas involved in reason, problem-solving, and comprehension. — Rhonda Patrick
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area — Tracey Emin
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? — Ridley Scott
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful. — Isaiah Washington
In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all. — David Baldacci
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket. — Brian McKnight
The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens. — Justin Timberlake
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence. — Dan Brown
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens. — Scott Adams
Grey Areas Quotes
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas. — Damon Hill
I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me. — Belinda Carlisle
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened. — Bill Parcells
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book. — Danica Patrick
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas. — Jack Kirby
Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. — Terryl L. Givens
The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area. — David Bowie
Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. I don't understand grey area that well, and I've been working at that. — Kathleen Hanna
Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other. — Emily Mortimer
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
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
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. — Pete Stark
We're crazy about this city. 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
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world — Oscar Wilde
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there? — Herb Caen
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
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, incites one to dream. — Georges Pompidou
I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other. — Twiggy
I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world. — Joe Dimaggio
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
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
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world. — Conrad Hilton
A Bay Area Bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. — Woody Allen
Now there's a grown-up swinging town. — Frank Sinatra
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. — Willie Brown
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. — Herb Caen
I am a Bay Area guy, no question. — Huey Lewis
I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here. — Gary Snyder
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 A. Michener
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities — Cecil Beaton
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
It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs. — Erik Qualman
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before. — Joe Morgan
Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood. — John Collison
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
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises. — Sandy Alderson
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. — Woody Allen
I'm a true native of the Bay Area. — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. — Clint Eastwood
When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU. — Mahershala Ali
When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey. — Jonathan Cain
We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area. — Khaled Hosseini
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
I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years. — Aaron Peirsol
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