Chicago Quotes

Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

I honestly have never been a guy to panic or freak out in the middle of a crisis. Growing up in the south side of Chicago will make you pretty resilient.

Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

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.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

I knew nothing about hockey when I came to Chicago and then became the biggest fan - went to every playoff game.

I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.