Detroit Quotes · Page 11

I don't think there has been any mayor in America scrutinized that way. I don't think there has been any mayor as…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to…

— B. C. Forbes

“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was…

— Tom Hayden

Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that…

— David Maraniss

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

— Julie Mehretu

I'm from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.

— Dan Amboyer

Spending my 20s in Detroit has been incredible for me.

— Andre Drummond

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

Growing up close to Detroit, my brother is a huge Red Wing fan, my dad was a huge Gordie fan.

— Joe Thornton

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

— Steve Yzerman

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

— Antonio Gates

I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

— Jeb Bush

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the…

— Barry Sanders

I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me…

— Chauncey Billups

One thing I love about Detroit is that in the wintertime, they have a great device for removing snow. It's called July.

— Soupy Sales

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

— Felix Kramer

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

— Doug Collins

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great…

— James Howard Kunstler

When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.

— Steven Sebring

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what…

— Danny Brown

The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times…

— Charlie LeDuff

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to…

— Jeb Hensarling

While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew…

— Andrew J. Feustel

It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring…

— David Maraniss

You can't keep going back to Detroit because you're big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it…

— John Waite

No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had…

— Anonymous

I usually get so warned when I go to Detroit, like, 'Oh my God, don't go to this section, don't go to…

— Lisa Lampanelli

You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different…

— Dwight Howard

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

— Obie Trice

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

— Edward Herrmann

There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.

— Charles Oakley

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

— Travis Barker

I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

— Dan Gilbert

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

— Dan Gilbert

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

— P. J. O'Rourke

For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

— Manuel Moroun

Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.

— Jemele Hill

I've lived in L.A., Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati but New York is the best.

— Soupy Sales