1.
I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.
Deion Sanders
2.
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
Bennett Cerf
3.
Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
Glenn Frey
4.
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
Diana Ross
6.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
Marvin Gaye
7.
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
John Lee Hooker
9.
The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.
Derrick May
10.
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem
11.
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
Mark Steyn
12.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice
13.
Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Obie Trice
14.
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
Rick Danko
15.
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
Ted Lindsay
16.
Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
Kristen Bell
17.
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
Ed Markey
18.
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
Kid Rock
19.
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
Edward Furlong
20.
That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?
Mayer Hawthorne
21.
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Ernest Gellner
22.
I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.
Bobby Layne
23.
There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played
Smokey Robinson
24.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
Joyce Carol Oates
25.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Jim Harrison
26.
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
27.
Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person
Julian Bond
29.
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.
Charles Krauthammer
30.
I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.
Jack White
31.
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
Charlie LeDuff
32.
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
Obie Trice
33.
I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.
Dwayne McDuffie
34.
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Ram Dass
36.
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
Eddie Floyd
37.
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
John Engler
39.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
Tony Goldwyn
40.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Madonna Ciccone
41.
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.
Jerome Bettis
42.
Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.
Lillian Gish
43.
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson
44.
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
Mat Johnson
45.
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
Ed Koch
46.
Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.
Mitt Romney
47.
I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?
Eugene Mirman
48.
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
Michael Eric Dyson
49.
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
Julie Mehretu
50.
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
Anna Sui