Chicago Quotes · Page 17

Thanks to my mother's sacrifices, I was able to attend one of the best schools in Chicago.

— Ayanna Pressley

“Why a person who is living in Chicago can’t be buried in New York?”

— OyoKids Publications

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

— Lil Durk

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

— John Candy

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

— Will Rogers

We should do 'Takeaway' from Chicago or Philadelphia. We'd have great fun with it.

— Declan Donnelly

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

— Gary Cole

I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

— Butch Trucks

Chicago is a great city and I love coming back each and every time and thinking about all the great memories I…

— Andrei Arlovski

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it…

— John Gunther

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry…

— David Schwimmer

When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear…

— Thomas Frank

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre…

— David Schwimmer

Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa…

— Tavi Gevinson

The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

“An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills." — Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick…

— Erik Larson

Frankly, kicking was just an extra thing that I did. I guess most people remember that I was also a quarterback. But…

— George Blanda

I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I…

— Rand Paul

Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded…

— Paul Samuelson

“Jimmy looked at me and said, “I think you should stay in Chicago for a while.” And what a town that turned…

— Charles Brandt

I remember when I saw 'The Dark Knight' movie, and I was sitting there watching it, and there actually came one or…

— Paul Dini

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in…

— Jessie Mueller

You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man…

— Chael Sonnen

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly…

— Sara Paretsky

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

— William Vaughn Moody

Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.

— Blase J. Cupich

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

— Paul Scheer

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.

— Timothy Simons

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

— Lil Durk

“The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.”

— John H. Matthews

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Some things shoot in Chicago, but even those things that shoot there still cast their bigger roles in L.A. or New York.

— KiKi Layne

Working on 'Candyman' in Chicago was probably the - I absolutely love this city, this city is so funky.

— Tony Todd

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

— Jimmy Page

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

— Clay Guida

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

— Sean Gunn

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