Chicago Quotes · Page 15

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

— Mike Conley Jr

Prodigal sons like Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan only come back to Chicago to sell their homes.

— Sean Evans

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

— Desiree Rogers

Being from Chicago, you kind of are shielded in a way from the other stuff that goes on in music and the…

— Ravyn Lenae

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

— Deadmau5

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

— Jane Byrne

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

— Frank Vincent

...the ending's gonna be great. That's what I'm convinced of.

— Dusty Baker

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was…

— Sean Hayes

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, I was a college football junkie. My mom attended the University of Iowa and so I…

— Kirk Cousins

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I…

— Chris McCaughan

Joe Montana had bad games in the playoffs against the Giants and Chicago Bears; that doesn't stop us from considering him as…

— Cris Carter

I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of…

— Virgil Abloh

Neil and I had the greatest experience of our lives doing 'Chicago' with Latifah. Then we had the second best experience of…

— Craig Zadan

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white…

— Tom Verlaine

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the…

— Robert Indiana

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because…

— Matt Cameron

You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan…

— Marva Collins

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,…

— Alice Walker

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University…

— Ryan McPartlin

When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly…

— Haskell Wexler

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City…

— Mike Birbiglia

The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the…

— Marv Albert

I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the…

— Benny Goodman

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

— Ernest Hemingway

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.

— Charles Oakley

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

— Nick Offerman

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

— Craig Zadan

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

— Nelson Algren

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York…

— Christie Hefner

Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.

— Karch Kiraly

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

— Erik Larson

Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series

— Harry Caray

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

— Richard Edelman

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

— Chuck Inglish

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

Breaking the back of the Chicago machine, it's quite monumental.

— Lori Lightfoot

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

— Colin Donnell