Chicago Quotes · Page 11

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

— Rashad Evans

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

— Bethany McLean

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

— Buddy Guy

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

— David Hasselhoff

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.

— Jim Ross

My adult life, I grew up in Chicago. When I go back there, I always have fond memories.

— B. J. Armstrong

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

— Sonya Walger

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

— Donald Johanson

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When…

— Dwyane Wade

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

— Christopher Walken

I try to stay away from carbs, but it can get cold in Chicago, and some sort of fettuccine Bolognese is right…

— Jesse Lee Soffer

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the…

— Michelle Malkin

I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had…

— Lauren Beukes

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of…

— John W. Henry

Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35…

— Philip Baker Hall

Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and…

— Madeleine Albright

“I . . . hurried to the city library to find out the true age of Chicago. City library! After all, it…

— Yone Noguchi

Not saying that we are realer than most people, but because Chi is so segregated, first of all, we have to be…

— Lil Rel Howery

I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War…

— Steve Wilkos

It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to…

— Craig Zadan

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief…

— Lupe Fiasco

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel…

— Thomas Frank

Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because…

— Irvine Welsh

I did a lot of musicals when I was younger. And then I went to Northwestern University, and I did more musicals.…

— George Newbern

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

— Studs Terkel

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

— Steven Yeun

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

— Jack Steinberger

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

— Matt Walsh

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

— Mike Quigley

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,

— Mikey Welsh

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

— Tina Fey

I have fallen in love with Chicago. The community here is loving, supportive, and welcoming.

— Alex Weisman

We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

— T. J. Oshie

Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.

— Danny K. Davis

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

— Jane Smiley

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

— Common

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right.

— Donald Trump

What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

— Nik Wallenda

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

— Harold Washington