Quotes About Detroit Michigan

#1. I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Marta Kristen

#2. Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

Mat Johnson

#3. I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

Jerome Bettis

#4. By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

#5. I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

Eli Broad

#6. I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

Felix Hernandez

#7. In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.

Chris Crutcher

#8. I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

Paul Feig

#9. From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Sam Harris

#10. The greatest ability is dependability.

Bob Jones

#11. Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#12. Silicon Valley's success is built on the carcasses of its failures. In the Valley, failure is fertilizer. Like all fertilizer, though, it must be used wisely by a skilled farmer, otherwise it is useless and smells bad. As

Eric Weiner

#13. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#15. We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

Lamar Alexander

#16. Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Billy Graham

#17. Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#18. Look at the sky, Huge isn't it? Nothing like the skies out here makes you feel small. Insignificant.

Emily Barroso

#19. The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. 'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

Michael Imperioli

#21. I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.

Kid Rock

#22. Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Kid Rock

#23. We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.

Anita Roddick

#24. I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

Danny Brown