(778 quotes found)
“I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'”
Richard Jeni
“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
“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
“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
Dan Quayle
“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 some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.”
Gary Washburn
“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.”
Ralph Kiner
“I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.”
Sarah Bernhardt
“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
“Chicago ain't no sissy town.”
Hinky Dink Kenna
