Chicago Quotes · Page 19

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

— Harold Washington

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

— Georg Solti

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

— Alexander Woollcott

I love 'Chicago,' I love the musical and the movie and I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones was amazing.

— Fiona Bruce

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.

— K. Flay

When the Chicago rap scene came about, I listened to all of the upcoming artists like Lil Durk, Chief Keef and G…

— Polo G

I know Los Angeles has it better than Chicago when it comes to produce year round!

— Rick Bayless

'Chicago' has got such great women characters. It runs off two women, so what could be better than that?

— Erika Jayne

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like…

— Kel Mitchell

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London…

— John R. Rice

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at…

— Ernest Hemingway

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry…

— Dave Grohl

“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible…

— Audrey Niffenegger

You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then…

— Vic Mensa

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story…

— Hugh Ferriss

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second…

— Matt Besser

“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached…

— Nelson Algren

It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I…

— Bill Rancic

I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at…

— Alex Weisman

Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they…

— Devin Hester

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the…

— Anthony Bourdain

I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and…

— Barack Obama

“I . . . hurried to the city library to find out the true age of Chicago. City library! After all, it…

— Yone Noguchi

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

— Jim Harrison

I love playing in Chicago, and the fans have been great to me.

— Scottie Pippen

I was 10 years old, and I went to the Marigold Arena in Chicago, and I was hooked, just like that.

— Bobby Heenan

Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago.

— Ben Feldman

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my…

— Kristin Cavallari

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

— Robin Tunney

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

— Abigail Washburn

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

— Charles Oakley

Chicago has quickly become one of my favorite places in the world.

— Miranda Rae Mayo

“If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.”

— Tucker Elliot

I am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.

— Lee Marvin

“Really, nobody was there?” I asked. “Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”

— Daniel Amory

I love Chicago, I love the coaches here and I love the guys here.

— Michael Carter-Williams

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

— Robert Christgau

“Berlusconi is us,” as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.”

— John Micklethwait