Motor City Quotes

#1. I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

Ted Nugent

#2. My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Big Sean

#3. I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Frank Gehry

#4. My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

David Maraniss

#5. Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

Gerald Celente

#6. Look at you, locked and loaded, like Mae West of the Motor City.

Ruta Sepetys

#7. Here in the Motor City, we take an almost perverse pride in doing things the hard way, or whatever way that means we can be left alone to do our thing however we want.

Anna Clark

#8. I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Marc Andreesen

#9. You know what pisses me off about time? It only lets us experience it once, yet it lasts forever.

Dean Blake

#10. Where in the work of these people was love, the unmoving motor of all the stars, fixed point and vertex of the actions of men of real daring?

Daniel Saldana Paris

#11. We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

David Branch

#12. No matter what happened, he was Dex and I was Perry and that combination only led to trouble.

Karina Halle

#13. I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Oscar Arias

#14. Then go find another woman," she said flatly.
"I want you. Only you. The devil knows why," Sebastien glared at her.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Arthur Balfour

#16. Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

George Clooney

#17. A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.

Enrique Penalosa

#18. Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

C.S. Lewis

#19. That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. He had never expected a title, never expected lands of his own or a household to go with them. His father had been a younger son of a younger son; God only knew how many Dunfords had had to die to put him in line for this inheritance.

Julia Quinn

#21. The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

Jim Carrey