Chicago Quotes - Page 21

• it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

  Jane Smiley

  Food, Years, San Francisco

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• Every year, my family and I would go visit my moms family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

  Marisol Nichols

  Mom, Texas, Years

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• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Albums, Band

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

  George Saunders

  Risk, Sides, Grew Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.

  Lee DeWyze

  Winter, Tough Times, Would Be

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• I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Scene, Theater

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• Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

  Mr. T

  Jesus, Snow, Knees

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Everyone is so concerned now where all of the candidates are born. McCain was born on a military base in Panama. Hillary was born outside Chicago, and if you believe the media, Barack Obama was born in a manger.

  Jay Leno

  Military, Believe, Media

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• I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

  Grant Achatz

  New York, Cooking, Wish

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  Ed Asner

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

  Bob Newhart

  Fun, Thinking, Affection

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• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  Bailey Chase

  Growing Up, Eras, Jordan

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• Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Growing Up, Color, Skins

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• 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

  Bob Costas

  Running, Nba Championships, Utah

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• I am an American – Chicago born.

  Saul Bellow

  Born

  1953 The Adventures of Augie March.

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• I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Jobs, School, Equal Pay

  "Gil Scott-Heron Rhymes a Revolution". Interview With Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 21, 2008.

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• I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

  Ron Santo

  Believe, Years, Careers

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• We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

  T. J. Oshie

  Hate, Team, Gun

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• All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sleep, Shoes, Razors

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• For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

  Patrick Stump

  Girl, Mom, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.

  Patrick Stump

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

  Eric Zorn

  Thinking, People, Politician

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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• He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Guy, Hell, Bigs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. You do not really encounter anarchism until after the Civil War, when you have European anarchists, especially German anarchists, coming to the United States. They actually begin to organize. The first time that anarchism has an organized force and becomes publicly known in the United States is in Chicago at the time of Haymarket Affair.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Encounters, United States

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