Detroit Quotes · Page 4

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

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

— Diana Ross

Detroit, it's just an incredible city overall. The people here are so friendly and very outgoing.

— Andre Drummond

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

— Malik Bendjelloul

“I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your…

— Gabriel Rheaume

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

— Stan Van Gundy

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

— Marvin Gaye

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

— Big Sean

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor…

— Marta Kristen

Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight…

— Mitch Albom

I've played in Detroit so many times; the only thing I can say is that the crowd has been very responsive to…

— Jay Sean

I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I'm like,…

— Sam Richardson

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act,…

— Gallagher

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That…

— Quincy Jones

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game.…

— Eminem

I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering]…

— Bart Scott

I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the…

— Grace Lee Boggs

When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy…

— George Clooney

“‎Now the deer moved through snow, snow that blew sideways, frosting the perfectly upright walls of Detroit's dead and monumental heart, vast…

— William Gibson

A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think…

— David Cerone

One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“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 can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil…

— Sam Hamill

I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as…

— MC Serch

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

— Kristen Bell

I'm going to try my best to do everything I can for Detroit.

— Tee Grizzley

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

— G. Willow Wilson

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

— Madonna Ciccone

The city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of Hillary Clinton's failed economic agenda.

— Donald Trump

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

— Richard Shelby

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

— Ram Dass

Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.

— Xzibit

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

— Bennett Cerf

Rihanna can sell just as many tickets in Cape Town as she can in Detroit.

— Michael Rapino

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

— Meg White

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

— Charlie LeDuff

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

— Robert Hood

In Detroit, at least in my household, you might be poor, but you better be honest. You work for what you get.

— Jerome Bettis

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

— Ty Cobb