Chicago Quotes

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

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.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

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.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since January 1st [2016]. Is this a war-torn country? What are we doing? And we have to stop the violence.

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1969.