Chicago Quotes

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days of the NHL played for the Chicago Blackhawks.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.

We are sitting on many powder kegs. Whether it's Ferguson, or St Louis, or like the other night, or Baltimore. Or different parts of Chicago.

If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going on I will send in the feds.

I love Chicago. I have big investments in Chicago, and I think it's a great city.

But when you look - and Chicago's not the only - you go to Ferguson, you go to so many different places. You need better relationships. I agree with Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on this.

It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

I want to be in Chicago. I'd like to.

There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

I love being in Chicago.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

I did see LES MIZ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love CHICAGO, too.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.