Best Detroit Sayings
194 Detroit quotes by 151 unique authors
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Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has…
— Charlie LeDuff
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LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
— Mark Steyn
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Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.
— Dennis Miller
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One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I…
— Steve Yzerman
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I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like…
— John Starks
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I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and…
— Chad Smith
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When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just…
— George Clooney
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I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I…
— Al Kaline
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I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.
— Steven Yeun
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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
— Jane Jacobs
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Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.
— G. Willow Wilson
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Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
— Julie Mehretu
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My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to…
— Anita Baker
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you…
— Jonathan Raban
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Let Detroit go bankrupt.
— Mitt Romney
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Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.
— Rick Santorum
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People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe…
— Leonard Slatkin
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
— Obie Trice
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
— Obie Trice
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
— Obie Trice
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
— Ted Lindsay
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There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and…
— Dave Barry
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I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and…
— Casey Kasem
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Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
— Edward Furlong
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