Chicago Quotes

• I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

  Erik Larson

  Secret, Cold, Shameful

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

  Hank Sauer

  Home, Knows

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• I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Cities, Usa, America

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• Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

  Ben Hecht

  Yellowstone, Offering, Lasts

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• 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

  Cities, Roots, Feet

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• I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

  Michael Douglas

  New York, Hype, People

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 16, 2013

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• It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

  Mark Twain

  Cities, Trying, Lasts

  Mark Twain (2014). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.643, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Cities, Giving, Spirit

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.428, Heyday

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

  Ralph Kiner

  Weather, Waiting, Fifteen

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Intelligent, Sharks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

  George Gobel

  Uncles, Work, Drinking

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• You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

  Robert Fulghum

  Ants, Feels, Contemplating

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• You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Cities, Michigan

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• My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

  Henry Taube

  Aspect, Interest, Metals

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

  Fred Allen

  Easter, Kids, Home

  Fred Allen (1956). “Much Ado About Me”

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• Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

  John Ensign

  Oakland, San Francisco, Competition

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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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• That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Cities, Three, Want

  Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

  Tim Meadows

  Gun, Cop, Arrested

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