Quotes about Chicago
Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.
— Barack Obama
You may be at paradise or in prison, at the movies or in Chicago, but you are always and unchangeably in Christ.
— Sam Storms
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
As long as the struggle was down in Alabama and Mississippi, they could look afar and think about it and say how terrible people are. When they discovered brotherhood had to be a reality in Chicago and that brotherhood extended to next door, then those latent hostilities came out.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
— Michelle Obama
Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.
— Barack Obama
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
— Grover Cleveland
I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
— Stephen Colbert
The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.
— Blase J. Cupich
Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.
— Blase J. Cupich
If I were LeBron, I would have gone to Chicago or I would have stayed home and showed a little more loyalty to my city and my team. But I'm not LeBron.
— Stephen Jackson