Chicago Quotes · Page 13

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

— Chance the Rapper

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

— Will Rogers

A five-year shelf life in Chicago is almost equivalent to five to 10 somewhere else.

— Joe Maddon

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

— George Stigler

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

— Wang Jianlin

I don't think the people in Chicago really knew exactly who I was in the seven years I was there.

— Toni Kukoc

I know I'm being biased about Chicago, but I think Chicago got the most talented people in the world.

— Lil Rel Howery

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

— Greg Evigan

New York has a strong focus on the migration of immigrants, and there is a crime element there and even an underbelly,…

— David Eigenberg

I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work…

— Claes Oldenburg

“I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you…

— Carl Sandburg

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in…

— Norman Mailer

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there…

— Bill Ayers

People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the…

— Seal

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in…

— Nick Offerman

Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a…

— Erik Larson

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of…

— Barack Obama

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest…

— Quincy Jones

A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone…

— Bernard Goldberg

Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been…

— Edward Allen Bernero

I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one…

— Eric Lefkofsky

When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy…

— Al Sharpton

I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had…

— Joan Didion

A lot of people don't expect people to live in Chicago. But Chicago is a sick city.

— Joe Keery

Nah, I see Chicago often. I go out there, so nah, I don't miss it.

— King Von

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

— Dennis Farina

“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.”

— George Levy

With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.

— Jamey Sheridan

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.

— Edwin Moses

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

— Jeremih

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I love the city of Chicago. They are so welcoming to the shows that shoot here.

— Colin Donnell

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

— Don Cornelius

I was very, very happy in Chicago as an actor making $168 a week.

— Brad Hall

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

— Eric Zorn

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

— John Hughes

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can…

— Irvine Welsh

“Chicago’s success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.”

— Edward Luce

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

— Cecily Strong