Moroun Quotes

#1. That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

Manuel Moroun

#2. You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.

Manuel Moroun

#3. My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

David Walton

#4. So - people a thousand years from now ... This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

Thornton Wilder

#5. One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.

Abby Sunderland

#6. A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.

Brad Cohen

#7. For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

Manuel Moroun

#8. We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

Manuel Moroun

#9. What if both boys and girls were raised not to link masculinity and money? What if their attitude was not "the boy has to pay," but rather, "whoever has more should pay.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. The wholesale corruption of social relationships, even the most intimate, is an essential part of Shakespeare's chilling exposure of authoritarian politics.

William Shakespeare

#11. We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

Manuel Moroun

#12. I love my country. I love my family.

Manuel Moroun

#13. I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

Manuel Moroun

#14. I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

David Bowie

#15. I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.

Manuel Moroun

#16. I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

Manuel Moroun

#17. I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.

Manuel Moroun