Top 1200 City Of Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

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

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

I live in Chicago but own some property up in Wisconsin.

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!

Detroit's financial challenges - the decline of the American auto industry, the impact of the global economic recession, declining population, and an erosion of the municipal tax base - are key to understanding what led this great city to an inability to provide basic city services or to carry out the normal functions of a municipality.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

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

If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.

I love playing in Chicago, and the fans have been great to me.

I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live in the city on a daily basis, because I really do spend a great deal of my time, when I'm not on the road, in my studio - everyday, everyday, everyday.

Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don't conform to a mandated 'white' status quo can be redlined out of a space.

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

I have fallen in love with Chicago. The community here is loving, supportive, and welcoming.

I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

It would be tremendous... I'd love to be part of winning a championship in Chicago.

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

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

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

New York is almost as important as Chicago, improv-wise.

Looking back at 'Taxi Driver' or, really, any of the Martin Scorsese films, he really filmed New York City in a way that I saw New York City.

If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own.

I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

I'm from Chicago and that's where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.

I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.

Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.

L.A. is a big city that has a lot of music in it but is not necessarily known for it. A lot of musicians got lost in that. You can make a living; you can gig a lot within the city and never get out of it. That was something that me and my friends, our generation, were afraid of happening to us.

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

I really liked Glasgow. I really liked living there for a year. It's a very fun city, and it has a lot to offer young people who are interested in music and art. It's a very creative city.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

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

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.

I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

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

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.

I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.

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

The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.