Detroit Quotes · Page 6

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

— Richard Shelby

People who tell me Detroit is dull are wrong.

— Soupy Sales

It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the…

— David Daniels

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will…

— Paul Bloom

And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on…

— David Maraniss

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

— Kevin Nash

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

— Eminem

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

— Madonna Ciccone

“I don't just sit around hopin for nothing. I do shit. It's the 'hope' part that fucks that line all up. You…

— Angela Flournoy

I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not…

— Marge Piercy

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I am a former paramedic of Detroit EMS. While working the road, I encountered many hidden gems in Detroit that I went…

— Leslie Cieplechowicz

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues…

— Danny Glover

The video for 'Ride the Wind,' we shot that in Detroit. We shot it at Joe Louis Arena two nights in a…

— Bret Michaels

I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name…

— Diana Ross

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

— Mark Steyn

“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs…

— John Rachel

“Haven't you heard, the Dread Scott decision has been overturned?" "Not out here, baby," Warren replied, without a second's hesitation. "For that…

— Joyce Haber

I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we…

— Jane Jacobs

Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

— Mila Kunis

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

— Stan Van Gundy

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

— Jane Jacobs

Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better…

— Elinor Glyn

Detroit is a hard city.

— J Dilla

My step-dad started playing hockey in Detroit so we moved and I had to start home school. I started watching movies since…

— Steven R. McQueen