Chicago Quotes - Page 2

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

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

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

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.

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

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 am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.

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.

I’m a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It’s such an awful way to live. [In Chicago] people want to get to know you for you. I feel like I can just breathe.

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.

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

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

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

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

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.