Chicago Quote by Carl Sandburg

“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”

— Carl Sandburg

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:…

— Carl Sandburg

“I felt a thrill—a new civil affinity budding in my dreams and in the brick-and-mortar city, simultaneously: that we, the people, were awakening to…

— Aspen Matis

“from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,  Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,  Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on…

— Walt Whitman

“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Having no say in the direction our leader was taking us, was just like in my cowboy days, if a cow got out of…

— Wes Adamson

“Just knock off the horns and hair, and toss it on the coals for about thirty seconds on each side. I like mine still…

— Ray Palla

“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies,…

— Gary Inbinder

“I don’t have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well." – Thomas Hudson”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Here I want to see those men of hard voice. Those that break horses and dominate rivers; those men of sonorous skeleton who sing…

— Federico García Lorca

“You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride.”

— Michael Lee West

“To spare the conquered, and beat down the proud.”

— St Augustine