Chicago Quotes

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

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 emotional relationship.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

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

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

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 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.

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

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

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’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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.