Chicago Quotes · Page 16

My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing…

— Mike Pence

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

— Will Rogers

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

— John Candy

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

— Ayanna Pressley

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the…

— Bailey Chase

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

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

— OyoKids Publications

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so…

— Matthew McGrory

Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals…

— P. J. O'Rourke

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed.…

— Ben van Berkel

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving…

— Lauren Holly

Everyone is so concerned now where all of the candidates are born. McCain was born on a military base in Panama. Hillary…

— Jay Leno

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions…

— Kaskade

No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is…

— Rahm Emanuel

I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good…

— Zutty Singleton

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago…

— Gus Van Sant

A lot of the original people on 'SNL' came through Chicago - and Toronto, I'm sure - but Chicago was the center…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine…

— William Gibson

“He'd searched every corner of his mind looking for ways to avoid a rendezvous with Chico. In the last twenty years, Slade…

— Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote

These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making…

— Franklin P. Adams

Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful…

— Roger Ebert

Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been.…

— Charles Comiskey

I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take…

— Remi Aubuchon

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

— Jimmy Page

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

— Tony Todd

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

— Sean Gunn

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

— Clay Guida

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

— John H. Matthews

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

— Lil Durk

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

— Timothy Simons

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

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

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— William Vaughn Moody

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

— Butch Trucks

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

— Gary Cole

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

— Declan Donnelly

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

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

— Ahmet Ertegun

We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.

— Ben Zobrist