08 Jun

Citations sur San Francisco

Publié par jean-yves guilloteau - Catégories : #paysage

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par jean-yves guilloteau

récupéré sur le site de Tony Quarrington

1. 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)

2. San Francisco has only one drawback - ’tis hard to leave. (Rudyard Kipling)

3. You know what it is? (It) is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away. (John Steinbeck)

4. San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world. (Robert Redford)

5. 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)

6. Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful. (Nikita Kruschev)

7. I prefer a wet San Francisco to a dry Manhattan. (Larry Geraldi)

8. The cool, grey city of love. (George Sterling)

9. 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)

10. I don’t know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighbourhoods, and you’re never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here. (Gary Snyder)

11. San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality. (Paul Kantner)

12. The ultimate (travel destination) for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. It’s a perfect 72 degrees, clear, the sky bright blue. I’d start down at Fisherman’s Wharf with someone I really like and end with a romantic dinner and a ride over the Golden Gate Bridge. 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)

13. Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. (Walter Kronkite)

14. There’s no question this is where I want to live. Never has been. (Robin Williams)

15. San Francisco is one of my favourite 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)

16. When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco, you can always lean against it. (unknown)

17. 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)

18. In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world. (Conrad Hilton)

19. 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)

20. 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)

21. What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakeable sense of escape from the United States. (H.L. Mencken)

22. The City of San Francisco (the metropolis of the State) considering its age, is by long odds the most wonderful city on the face of the earth. (G.W. Sullivan)

23. You have in San Francisco this magnificent Civic Center crowned by a City Hall which I have never seen anywhere equalled. (Joseph Strauss)

24. Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco. (Gene Fowler)

25. Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent. (Irwin S. Cobb)

26. No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. (William Saroyan)

27. 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 La Guardia)

28. I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That’s one of the town’s charms. (Erroll Flynn)

29. San Francisco! – one of my two favorite cities. There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth! (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen)

30. I don’t think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn’t love the place, Americans or others. (Doris Lessing)

31. San Francisco is Beautiful People wearing a bracelet of bridges. (Hal Lipset)

32. San Francisco is the greatest…the hills…fabulous food…most beautiful and civilised people. (Duke and Duchess of Bedford)

33. I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon. (Kim Novak)

34. Now there’s a grown-up swinging town. (Frank Sinatra)

35. I don’t like San Francisco. I love it! (Dorothy Lamour)

36. Two days in this city is worth two months in New York. (Robert Menzies)

37. I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other. (Twiggy)

38. San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. (Pat Montandon)

39. I love this city. If I am elected, I’ll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody’s so friendly. (Robert Kennedy)

40. I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives…and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country…But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House. (Irene Dunne)

41. We’re crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day – all over town – and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here……Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for a trip to San Francisco……And the beautiful old houses and the strange light. We’ve never been in a city with light like this. We sit in our hotel room for hours, watching the fog come in, the light change. (John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

42. San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. (Jack Kenny)

43. San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus in the world….one of the really urbane communities in the United States…one of the truly cosmopolitan places – and for many, many years, it has always had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world. (Duke Ellington)

44. No visit to the United States would be complete without San Francisco – this beautiful city, center of the West, very well known for its beauty and the place where the United Nations was born. (Queen Sirikit of Thailand)

45. To a traveler paying his first visit, it has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world. (Fitz Hugh Ludlow)

46. Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is “Yokel”, but San Francisco is “City at Heart”. (Will Rogers)

47. This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world. I love no city more than this one. Where else could I sing outdoors on Christmas Eve? (Luisa Tetrazzini)

48. San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home. (Benjamin F. Taylor)

49. It’s the grandest city I saw in America. If everyone acted as the San Franciscans did, there would be hope for settlement of the world’s difficulties. (Frol Zozlov)

50. To this day the city of San Francisco remains to the Chinese the Great City of the Golden Mountains. (Kai Fu Shah)

Many of the above quotations were discovered in Gladys Hansen’s wonderful 1995 book: San Francisco Almanac – Everything You Want to Know about Everyone’s Favorite City”. It is not easy to get hold of but worth the effort.