Chicago Quotes · Page 21

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

— Cecily Strong

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

— Bill Lipinski

In Chicago, there weren't a lot of Mormons in the town growing up.

— Sophie Thatcher

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

— Gary Cole

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

— Claes Oldenburg

My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.

— Clemantine Wamariya

Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.

— W. Kamau Bell

I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.

— Gary Sherman

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

— Blase J. Cupich

“I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we…

— Chloe Neill

I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians…

— Kurt Elling

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn…

— R. Kelly

I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take…

— Muddy Waters

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black…

— Steve Albini

You're never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he's done in this state, trying…

— Lori Lightfoot

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a…

— Richard M. Daley

My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since…

— Jim Butcher

I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened…

— Barack Obama

“I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking…

— Daniel Amory

“I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the…

— Austin Grossman

The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the…

— Sean Hannity

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison…

— John Gunther

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran…

— Quincy Jones

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of…

— Craig Zadan

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

— Dick Gregory

I left before I had the opportunity to pursue work more widely in Chicago.

— KiKi Layne

I'm playing a cop in Chicago. So I have to look beefier - like a guy who eats steak and potatoes.

— Jesse Lee Soffer

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold…

— Emily Robison

I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.

— Brendan Hunt

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

— Anonymous

I'm a huge Ron Rivera fan, I played for Ron for three years in Chicago.

— Brian Urlacher

I want to play this game as long as possible, and I want to do it as long as I can here…

— Mitchell Trubisky

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

— Richard Roeper

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of…

— Jane Byrne

I think Thibs is a great coach. When he went to Chicago they had immediate success.

— Rick Carlisle

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red…

— Ted Lindsay

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

— James Cronin

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

— Emmylou Harris

I've got ties in Chicago. I was trained there. I've got a lot of family and friends.

— Christopher Daniels

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

— Philip Jose Farmer