Detroit Quotes - page 5

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing. (Matthew Stafford)

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

Mayer Hawthorne

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

Mayer Hawthorne

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

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Michael Eric Dyson

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

Michael Eric Dyson

Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

Michael Imperioli

I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

Nancy Lublin

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

Ndamukong Suh

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Obie Trice

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music. (Obie Trice)

I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.

Pat Burns

So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

Rachel Nichols

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

Rebecca Hall

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 didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.

Steve Yzerman

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

Tony Goldwyn

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

Terry Bradshaw

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.

Willie Green

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

Wayne Kramer

Augie: Does everybody else know? T. C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T. C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

Steve Kluger

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit. (Lillian Gish)

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

My forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence, he extended his lines to the head waters of Scioto; from thence, to its mouth; from thence, down the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, and from thence to Chicago, on lake Michigan.

Little Turtle

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Kid Rock

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