Detroit Quotes · Page 5

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

— Kevin Nash

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

— Aretha Franklin

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

— Magic Johnson

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

— Steven Sebring

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Doug Collins

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

— Robert Hood

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

— Charlie LeDuff

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story…

— Michaela Angela Davis

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I…

— Paul Feig

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto…

— Chris Paine

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be…

— Jordin Sparks

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were…

— Chuck Daly

I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got…

— Pat Burns

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit…

— Kid Rock

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did…

— Clayton Christensen

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year.…

— Jason Kidd

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I…

— David Small

My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to…

— Keegan-Michael Key

It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There…

— MC Serch

Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and…

— Peter Bondra

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

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

— Rick Santorum

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

— Ty Cobb

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

— Jerome Bettis

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

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Richard Shelby

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

— Ram Dass

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

— Dan Gilbert

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

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

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

— Tee Grizzley