Chicago Quotes

592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it… — Richard Jeni
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately. — Bob Cousy
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has… — Francois Mauriac
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed… — Abraham Lincoln
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat. — Aleksandar Hemon
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I… — Bob Balaban
This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell… — Kristen Bell
Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing. — Andy Borowitz
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Unknown Author
Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now,… — Christie Hefner
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. — Nelson Algren
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the… — Al Capone
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February. — Gary Cole
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
There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood. — Unknown Author
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. — A J Liebling
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. — Norman Mailer
There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement. — Groucho Marx
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It… — H. L. Mencken
Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. — Charles Edward Merriam
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Unknown Author
Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates. — William Vaughn Moody
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. — Claes Oldenburg
There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful,… — Unknown Author
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. — Lincoln Steffens

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