Wednesday, April 2, 2008

O' Chicago !!!

"It's a beautiful day in Chicago"
-TRADITIONAL OPENING FOR THE BREAKFAST CLUB,
CHICAGO-BASED VARIETY SHOW,1933-68



"Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington."
-HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows her prophecies faster than she 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


"Recommended items for your time in Chicago: hat,gloves/mittens,thermal underwear,scarf,ear cozies/earmuffs,winter/snowboots, small package of Kleenex, lotion"
-WINTER SURVIVAL INFORMATION SHEET, CHICAGO GRADUATE SCHOOL

"Chicago is perhaps the most typically American place of America"
-JAMES BRYCE

"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

"I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib.It is alive from snout to tail"
-H.L MENCKEN


{courtesy:BRICK BOOKS-HYLAS PUBLICATION}

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