Chicago Quotes
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You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.
Barack Obama
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We have a chance to do something special for Chicago and we are not taking that for granted.
Eddy Curry
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I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.
Allison Tolman
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I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.
Joel Murray
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
Chance The Rapper
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For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.
Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
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Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.
Don Yaeger
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I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.
Jon Favreau
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I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.
John C. Reilly
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Chicago's always a friendly place to me.
Dennis Farina
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If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.
Kenneth C. Griffin
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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
Henry Taube
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I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.
Raquel Welch
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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.
Jerry Coleman
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I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
Allison Tolman
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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
Alvin Dark
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In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
Bill Dedman
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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Newt Gingrich
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Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Blase J. Cupich
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There were two teams that manhandled us last year, Chicago and Tampa Bay. It was just the worst-case scenario that we had to play them seven times at the end of the season when we were right in the race. Any other team, we probably would have been there. We were beating everybody else, but for some reason, Tampa Bay had our number, and so did Chicago.
Bob Wickman
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First, we really don’t care how you did it in Chicago. Second, if you miss it so much, Delta is ready when you are.
Lewis Grizzard
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I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.
Eddie George
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Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.
Miranda Rae Mayo