Chicago Quotes

592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style,… — Jelly Roll Morton
Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are… — Frank Norris
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an… — Diane Nash
I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's… — Ryne Sandberg
The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London,… — Gene Baur
In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal. — Hannibal Buress
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had… — George Stigler
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source — Duke Robillard
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago. — Tom Morello
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef. — Lupe Fiasco
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell… — Erik Larson
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world — Erik Larson
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. — Jack Steinberger
I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to… — Frank Rich
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically. — Mort Sahl
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. — Grover Cleveland
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that… — Joe Meno
In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois,… — Emory Douglas
I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured… — Ted Nugent
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a… — Stuart Dybek
I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always… — Unknown Author
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength. — Jane Byrne
Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes… — Mamie Till
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the… — Jared Diamond
I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It… — Dennis Eckersley

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