Quotes About The State Of Michigan

#1. In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Justin Amash

#2. We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

Woody Hayes

#3. I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

Candice S. Miller

#4. I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.

Geoffrey Fieger

#5. I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Jim Harrison

#6. 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

#7. When you want something, you have to learn to control it and make it yours.

Victoria Ashley

#8. Haw was beginning to realize the difference between activity and productivity.

Spencer Johnson

#9. The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity ...

Emil Cioran

#10. A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

Tyler Oakley

#11. Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.

Mike Bouchard

#12. Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.

Tracy Letts

#13. You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Bret Bielema

#14. If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

Gabrielle Reece

#15. In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#16. She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called

Christopher Paul Curtis

#17. A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Tim O'Brien

#18. People interested in museums as real educational environments, parents interested in their children's education, and people seeking to find themselves in a positive way could all benefit from reading this book. by Associate Dean Engineering, Michigan State University

Ronald Rosenberg

#19. Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

John Engler

#20. 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

#21. Michigan State already has one of the coolest mascots in college football, but if Sparty ever needs a day off, Javon Ringer could do the job. After all, he already does just about everything else for MSU.

Javon Ringer

#22. Anything we were studying in school, like math, or understanding somebody's behavior outside of school, kind of worked its way into something I could understand by way of a musical experience I'd had or something I'd heard.

Blake Mills

#23. I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Paul Engle

#24. The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

Jesse L. Martin

#25. Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation ...

Desiderius Erasmus

#26. There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

Mark Twain

#27. People can talk all they want about the Big Ten. About Michigan and Ohio State and Indiana and Kentucky or whatever, but there's no way that compares. They're in different states. Here, we share the same dry cleaners." - Mike Kryzewski

Joe Menzer

#28. Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Brent Musburger

#29. The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

Courtney Barnett

#30. from endless leg lifts and sit-ups in a gravel parking lot. When my calling to the Michigan State Police came with the murder of Howard Stoker, Rene's advice would cause me to examine carefully my own chain, and strive to strengthen all its

Clif Edwards

#31. I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

Tom Izzo

#32. Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Emile M. Cioran

#33. There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

John Calipari

#34. By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

James Monroe

#35. The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

John Quincy Adams

#36. Life's tough. It's a challenge. So think of love as your hard earned reward. Don't let doubt take that away from you.

Riley Murphy