Michigan Quotes · Page 4

Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.

— John Varvatos

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

— Jim Harrison

My hometown I grew up in in Michigan is really tiny, and they are so excited for all of my adventures my…

— Toni Trucks

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

— Bob Seger

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

— Jim Harbaugh

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

— Sander Levin

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

— Jim Harrison

This feels good, being back in Michigan... You know, the trees are the right height.

— Mitt Romney

I have a lot of family in Marquette. I'm way more familiar with the U.P. than I am with the lower peninsula.…

— Adam Conover

Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General…

— Mike Bouchard

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues…

— Elissa Slotkin

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the…

— Fred Upton

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers…

— Michael Moore

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four…

— Patti Smith

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater.…

— Alexander Koch

People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living…

— Gillian Anderson

“Where would you like me to take you?" "Oh, Monksie, you know how I've always been about traveling. You decide. I'll be…

— Percival Everett

I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back…

— Michael Moore

“Truly landlocked people know they are. Know the occasional Bitter Creek or Powder River that runs through Wyoming; that the large tidy…

— Toni Morrison

A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in…

— Trey Burke

Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs…

— Alvin Plantinga

I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his…

— Malcolm X

“There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with…

— Elmore Leonard

When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson…

— Bill Ayers

I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.

— John 5

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never…

— Bill Ayers

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

— Chuck Todd

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

— Jana Kramer

I had a great time at Michigan State, but no four years will compare to Saginaw High.

— Draymond Green

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I think the most important thing to know is I'm running for governor because I love the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

— Hillary Clinton

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

— Derek Jeter

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

— Margo Martindale

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

— Chuck Inglish

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

— Jennifer Granholm

Michigan has given so much to America, and it's time that America gives back to Michigan.

— John E. James

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

— Jennifer Granholm

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

— Ernie Harwell

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

— Jimmy Buffett