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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• In Chicago, we love our crooks!

  David Mamet

  Crooks

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

  George Gobel

  Uncles, Work, Drinking

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

  Hank Sauer

  Home, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

  Ralph Metcalfe

  Play, Cities, Sound

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• There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

  Groucho Marx

  Cities, Needs, Protocol

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• I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• [On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

  Hillary Clinton

  Baseball, Fans, Cubs

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• I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Saws, October

  "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, October 4, 2008.

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• Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Cities, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5704, Delphi Classics

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• In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

  Dick Gregory

  Sports, Country, Voting

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

  Gary Cole

  Cities, Missing, February

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

  Eugene V. Debs

  Cities, Modern, American Capitalism

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• 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

  Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Cities, Sound, Comfort

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation

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• No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

  Saul Bellow

  Cities, Protection, Realistic

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Cities, Germany, Causes

  Radio broadcast, 23 Jan. 1943.Woollcott's last words before the microphone.

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