(775 quotes found)
“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”
Oprah Winfrey
“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
Dan Quayle
“Chicago ain't no sissy town.”
Hinky Dink Kenna
“In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.”
Gary Washburn
“I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.”
Sarah Bernhardt
“Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.”
Dave Barry
“In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.”
Pat Colander
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“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
“Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.”
George F. Will