Quotes About Ann Arbor

#1. I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

Mayer Hawthorne

#2. The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

Mary Gaitskill

#3. I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

W. Richard Stevens

#4. Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

Fielding H. Yost

#5. When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Mike Wallace

#6. In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

Donald Hall

#7. That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

Mayer Hawthorne

#8. This isn't D.C., Murrary, this is Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is a long-haired, pot-smoking little college town.

Scott Sigler

#9. I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

Jim Harbaugh

#10. At home, loss was everywhere; she could barely see past it, like trying to look out a windowpane covered in fingerprints. She would always feel trapped behind that window, between her and the rest of the world, but at least in Ann Arbor, the glass was clearer. Whenever

Brit Bennett

#11. Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

Donald Hall

#12. Sonya wasn't listening. Her gaze was totally fixated on the road we'd pulled off onto. We came to a red light, where I caught sight of a cheery sign: WELCOME TO ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.

Richelle Mead

#13. You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn

Jude Watson

#14. A Christian will say ... "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.

Bill Hicks

#15. Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

Rosemary Verey

#17. Even when natural weather is good, human weather is bad.

Yasunari Kawabata

#18. What's the best part about writing a book?
Finishing it.

Rick Riordan

#19. Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Julius Sterling Morton

#20. I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

Amy Tan

#21. Mitt Romney had a horse competing in the Olympics. He didn't win. But next year, he'll be competing in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

David Letterman

#22. To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by her.

Julianne Skai Arbor

#23. There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.

Frederick Lenz

#24. When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

Taylor Swift

#25. When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

William Hague

#26. It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

Tertullian

#27. It is amazing how much the little hiccups of misfortune tag ones life with their passing.
- the seashel book of time

Rusty A. Biesele

#28. I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

Kid Rock

#29. Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Kim Stafford

#30. We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more.

George R R Martin

#31. She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

Cassandra Danz

#32. I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Roy Keane