Detroit Quotes · Page 15

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

— Antonio Gates

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

— Dan Amboyer

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.

— Shahid Khan

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate…

— Eli Broad

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the…

— Dan Gilbert

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the…

— Manning Marable

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

— Danny Brown

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

— Rick Santorum

It was always my dream, getting to America? Honestly, I couldn't figure America as being real. Because it was on discs or…

— Ian McLagan

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

— Kid Rock

That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe…

— Richelle Mead

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

I'm a Detroit fan in everything pro and I'm a Notre Dame fan in college.

— Rich Froning Jr

I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I…

— Rand Paul

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

— Edward Herrmann

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that…

— Philip Levine

In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the…

— Clark Durant

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

— Jeb Hensarling

I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.

— Bobby Layne

I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I…

— Eugene Mirman

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

— Steven Sebring

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

— Steven Yeun