Top 1200 Downtown Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.

When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.

I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.

I knew nothing about hockey when I came to Chicago and then became the biggest fan - went to every playoff game.

That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

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

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister.

My first CD that I had was the Ying Yang Twinz, and my grandma bought it for me. Honestly, I think my grandma got it from a thrift store or something. She just got it for me. It was in downtown Philadelphia. And I would listen to it. I liked it. None of my friends did, though, but I liked it.

When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago.

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

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.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

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.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

I feel like I have gotten to know Chicago pretty well, and every time I come here I have a really good response.

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

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.

Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.

Chicago's history is a classic American tale of reinvention, while its present is buzzy, chic and architecturally stunning.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

In Chicago, we have a century-old transit system that desperately needs updates to keep up with increased capacity.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

It's a little cheeky; growing up in Santa Fe was kind of a weird experience, because it's such a touristy town. So sometimes it feels a little like you're in a town that's just on display. You walk around downtown and all the shops are galleries or high end boutiques, so it can feel like you don't belong there even though you are from there.

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.

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

I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four.

My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on 'Oprah.'

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.

People in L.A. think I'm insane to go back to Chicago during the winter. It's because I love my apartment and fleece leggings and my friends.