Chicago Quotes · Page 21

I'm from Chicago and that's where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.

— Vic Mensa

I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

— Brian Urlacher

So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago.

— Tanya Saracho

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

— Carl Sandburg

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

— Frank Vincent

...the ending's gonna be great. That's what I'm convinced of.

— Dusty Baker

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

— Nick Offerman

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

— Craig Zadan

Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The…

— Charlie Barnett

When I first auditioned for 'Stranger Things,' I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant,…

— Joe Keery

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun…

— Ted Allen

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money,…

— Jack Kerouac

I remember feeling proud as I cast my first vote in Chicago in the 1972 presidential election - President Richard Nixon versus…

— Richard Edelman

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like…

— Stephanie Cutter

Chicago is known as the Windy City, and Montana is called the Big Sky State, so I think that we should somehow…

— Mitch Hedberg

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

— Hakeem Jeffries

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where…

— Conor Oberst

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New…

— James Geary

The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction.…

— Charles Frazier

When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm…

— Ramsey Lewis

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…

— Francois Mauriac

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector…

— Jim Butcher

Look at Mexico. Many, many factories, many plants. Nabisco's now moving to Mexico, their big Chicago plant. You look at Ford is…

— Donald Trump

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews,…

— Lupe Fiasco

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.

— Charles Oakley

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

— Ernest Hemingway

Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.

— Karch Kiraly

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

— Erik Larson

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York…

— Christie Hefner

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

— Nelson Algren

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

— Mike Conley Jr

Being from Chicago, you kind of are shielded in a way from the other stuff that goes on in music and the…

— Ravyn Lenae

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

— Desiree Rogers

Prodigal sons like Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan only come back to Chicago to sell their homes.

— Sean Evans

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

— Deadmau5

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

— Jane Byrne

I love the city of Chicago. They are so welcoming to the shows that shoot here.

— Colin Donnell

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

— Eric Zorn

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

— John Hughes