Chicago Quotes

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me - yes, they have even criticized me!

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

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.