Chicago Quotes

• I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

  

  Clara Shih
  • School
  • Family
  • English

• I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• This is the first time in my lifetime that a president has been from a city. From a place I would go. He's from Chicago; I love Chicago! I go there! Would I ever go to Wasilla, Alaska? Or Hope, Arkansas? Or Plains, Georgia? Or Crawford, Texas? Not on a bet! There's a reason small towns are small: no one wants to live there.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hope

• In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Chicago

• I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Moving

• Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20

  

  Alberto Giacometti
  • Art
  • Chicago
  • Collaboration

• 'What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?' - Russell: 'Not much.'

  

  Bill Russell
  • Winning
  • Chicago

• The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.

  

  Frank Thomas
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Chicago

• The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Fun
  • Dance
  • Chicago

• When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Alone
  • Chicago

• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Time
  • Friends
  • American

• The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • World
  • Culture
  • Chicago

• I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Remember
  • Christmas
  • Chicago

• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • House
  • Stupid

• I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Mom

• I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

  

  Clay Guida
  • Chicago

• The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Country
  • True
  • Comedy

• There's one denomination in particular, though, that has pushed very hard to be multiracial in its denomination - not only its denomination but, I mean, in its congregations, and it's called the Evangelical Covenant Church, http://www.covchurch.org/ which is headquartered in Chicago. Their whole goal is that's the kind of churches they start, multiracial, and I think they say now 20 percent of their churches are that.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Church
  • Congregation
  • Denominations

• I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Chicago

• I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Up
  • Chicago

• I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Drama
  • Chicago

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