"East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not m…"

"I'd thought it would be something like [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops…"

"Chinese children are in American schools in San Francisco. None of our children are in Chinese schools, and probably …"

"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 …"

"I don't believe that there is a blasé person in the State. Credit that to the earthquake. The catastrophe, too, will …"

"If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, "I…"

"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?"

"Dimanche, le vent du large tempère le soleil sur la jetée de San Francisco. Les familles se promènent, sans souci des…"

"It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a heigh…"

"This ain’t America, this is San Francisco."