Chicago Quotes · Page 19

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

— Bob Odenkirk

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

— Emmylou Harris

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

— James Cronin

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

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

— Philip Jose Farmer

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

— Christopher Daniels

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

— Richard Roeper

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

— Mitchell Trubisky

Being born and raised in Chicago made me tough. It made me strong. I feel like I can deal with anything. I…

— Shani Davis

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar…

— Michelle Obama

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in…

— Harold Ramis

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test…

— Kurt Elling

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually…

— Grant Achatz

You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything.…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to…

— Lena Waithe

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music…

— Tim Cahill

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer…

— Henri Poincare

There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including…

— Joe Bastianich

I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago…

— Ted Nugent

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it…

— Andre Agassi

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully…

— S. I. Hayakawa

I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a…

— Billy Gardell

I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some…

— Timothy Simons

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my…

— Scott Turow

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

— Ted Lindsay

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

— Rick Carlisle

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

— Jane Byrne

I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

— KiKi Layne

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

— Jesse Spencer

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

— Lester Bowie

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

— Giuliana Rancic

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

— George Stigler

It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.

— Toni Kukoc

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

— Michelle Obama

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

— Polo G

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

— Lena Waithe

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

— Gary Sherman

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

— W. Kamau Bell

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

— Bill Lipinski