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
5.
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.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice
12.
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
Mark Steyn
13.
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
14.
Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Obie Trice
15.
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
Edward Furlong
16.
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
17.
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Ernest Gellner
18.
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
Ted Lindsay
19.
Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
Kristen Bell
20.
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
Ed Markey
21.
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
Kid Rock
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
25.
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
26.
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
27.
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
Charlie LeDuff
28.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
Joyce Carol Oates
29.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Jim Harrison
30.
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
31.
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
33.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
Tony Goldwyn
34.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Madonna Ciccone
35.
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.
Jerome Bettis
36.
Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.
Lillian Gish
37.
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson
38.
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
Obie Trice
39.
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
41.
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Ram Dass
42.
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
Eddie Floyd
43.
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
John Engler
44.
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
Anna Sui
45.
I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.
Steven Seagal
46.
I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.
Grace Lee Boggs
47.
Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!
Danny Brown
48.
There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.
Michael Moore
49.
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.
Victoria Gray Adams
50.
Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
Kid Rock