Top 1200 Downtown Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

I played for Marinelli I think my last four, five years in Chicago. He's awesome.

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

I know Los Angeles has it better than Chicago when it comes to produce year round!

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.

Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.

Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

I was 10 years old, and I went to the Marigold Arena in Chicago, and I was hooked, just like that.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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

I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

When I was 16, I started to spend a lot of time in Soho and downtown New York and noticed everyone's style and the eclectic things people would wear. And that's when I started to experiment with things like my lipstick and mixing different kinds of pieces and, of course, my hair color.

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

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.

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

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations and bus stations, instead of forcing them to travel squashed up in shared-taxis.

Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities.

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.

I left before I had the opportunity to pursue work more widely in Chicago.