Chicago Quotes · Page 17

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

— Shelley Berman

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

— Frank Gehry

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

— Eric Lefkofsky

Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago.

— Elizabeth Flock

Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

— Lil Durk

I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.

— Lena Waithe

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

— Steve Miller

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

— Mike Quigley

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up…

— Bob Cousy

“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel…

— Nelson Algren

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs.…

— Lee Trevino

I am both delighted and honored to return to the University of Chicago as a Distinguished Senior Fellow and embark on this…

— Valerie Jarrett

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was…

— Candace Bushnell

“On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards…

— Tom Fitzpatrick

My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like…

— Lil Rel Howery

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well,…

— Patrick Stump

Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went…

— Andre Dubus

“But never, among all the cities I have wandered over the years, cities all over the earth, did I feel and smell…

— Brian Doyle

[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel,…

— Mark Shields

From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a…

— Karen DeCrow

I grew up in Chicago, but for the last 28 years I've lived in Moscow and London, and am now a British…

— Bill Browder

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you…

— Paul Samuelson

“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance,…

— Ijeoma Oluo

All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four…

— Bobby Seale

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

— Henny Youngman

Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am.

— Kurt Elling

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

— Jack Adams

Yes, I love Chicago in many ways, but I'm definitely not trying to fit, you know, the drill Chicago rapper.

— Cupcakke

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

— Jay Leno

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

— Jerry Della Femina

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

— Craig Sager

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

— Jane Byrne

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

— Hozier

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

— Tim Meadows

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

— Derrek Lee

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

— Chance The Rapper

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

— James Young

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

— Bill Hader

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

— Austan Goolsbee

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

— David Mamet