Detroit Quotes

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.

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

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

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

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

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

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.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

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.

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

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

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.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

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?

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

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

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played

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.

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.

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

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

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

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

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

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

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.

I care about the children of Detroit.

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

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Detroit is full of talent.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

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

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

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.

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

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?