Chicago Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Funny, New York, Thinking

  "A few words from Richard Jeni". www.cnn.com. March 12, 2007.

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• Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

  Nelson Algren

  Real, Broken, Lovely

  Nelson Algren (1983). “Chicago, city on the make”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Florida

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• Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Unique, Cities, America

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

  William Vaughn Moody

  Cities, Young, Gates

  William Vaughn Moody (1901). “Gloucester Moors and Other Poems”

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• Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, Cities, Differences

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• There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.

  Noel Perrin

  Beautiful, Cities, America

  Noel Perrin (1999). “Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

  Leonard Louis Levinson

  Milwaukee, Pompous

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• I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.

  Raquel Welch

  Stupid, Stupid Celebrity, States

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• And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

  Santiago Durango

  Band, No Money

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• My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

  George Stigler

  Training, Graduates, University

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Broadway

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.

  Benny Goodman

  Memorable, Kids, Fighting

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• I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

  Irv Kupcinet

  Cities, Political, Misunderstood

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Insanity, Crowds, Aspect

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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

  A. J. Liebling

  Cities, Bigs, Seems

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Chicago: The Second City”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

  Richard J. Daley

  Proud, Poet

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• The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

  Jane Byrne

  People, Proud, Reason

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• When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

  Mark Twain

  Devil, Purpose, Feels

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• My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

  Shelley Berman

  Jobs, Night, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

  Jane Byrne

  Conventions, Transportation, Trade

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• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

  John Gunther

  Cities, Forever, Teeth

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• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Real, Cities, Desire

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.6845, e-artnow

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

  John Belushi

  Army, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

  Huey Lewis

  Shows

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