"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

"San Francisco has only one drawback. ''Tis hard to leave"

Rudyard Kipling

"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

"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

"You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, 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

"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