Chicago Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Chicago
Chicago Quotes & Sayings
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Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets
— Allen Ginsberg
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
— Sandra Cisneros
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
— Will Rogers
I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago.
— Sue Monk Kidd
An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.
— Karen Abbott
There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.
— Michael Wilbon
In Chicago, they die for their teams.
— Zubin Mehta
I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
— Patti Smith
Using what you have is always creates more opportunities for the future.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
— Sammy Cahn
Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
I'm paraphrasing, but yeah, a friend out of the Chicago organization did." "Chicago? You tried planting your seed in the DeMarco family?
— J.M. Darhower
We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.
— Scott Walker
It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.
— Richard House
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.
— Jessy Schram
I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
— Brian Griese
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
— Douglas Wood
At Montrose Beach Park in Chicago, I photographed a diverse group of city dwellers reveling in the warm, late-day sun.
— Kevin J. Miyazaki
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
— Michael Musto
Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes.
— J.A. Konrath
I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
— Cecily Strong
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
— Eugene V. Debs
I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
— Richard Roeper
Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
— Bobby Womack
I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.
— Steve Albini
And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.
— Jerry Coleman
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.
— Ian Fleming
Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.
— Judy Chicago
All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
— Barack Obama
University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.
— Martin Gardner
I just make music from my soul and let it be.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
— Tim Meadows
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again. — Carl Sandburg
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again. — Carl Sandburg
You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.
— Robert Fulghum
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
— George Gobel
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
— Robin Tunney
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
— Joseph Jarman
It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago
— Dan C. Quayle
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
— Eric Lefkofsky
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
— Tom Morello
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
— Grover Cleveland
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,
— Mikey Welsh
I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
— Steve Carell
Big cities can have big hearts.
— Mary Elise Monsell
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
— Ian Anderson
I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory
Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.
— Charles Wheelan
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
— Jack Steinberger
Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.
— Barack Obama
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
— Candace Bushnell
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
— Harvey Korman
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
— Ron Currie Jr.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
— Judy Chicago
If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.
— Tucker Elliot
I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend.
— Benedict Jacka
Corson wrote from Chicago that while he had never heard Hitler speak, he had read the speeches, and he seemed
— Sigrid MacRae
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
— Dick Gregory
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
— Wang Jianlin
Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
— Nichelle Nichols
I love being in Chicago.
— Erin Heatherton
Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.
— Michael Sucsy
I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
— Huey Lewis