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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Dreams , City , Vision , Height


I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Remember , Memory , Funny , Elephant


A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  People , Day , Crazy , City


Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Society , Eat , Night , Stay


A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Good , Sky , Girl , Flower


I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Bad , Looks , Hope , Heaven


Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  You , Yourself , Black , City


A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Ideas , Mind , City , Opportunity


I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Life , Live , Past , My Life


Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Author: Herb Caen - American Journalist
  Well , Old , Buildings , Related


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