Michigan Quotes - page 3

I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. (Dan Amboyer)
I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University. View quote
Eli Broad
God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull. View quote
Ernie Harwell
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have. View quote
Ernie Harwell
But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love. View quote
Ernie Harwell
People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another. View quote
Fred Upton
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate. View quote
Gabriel Basso
If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan. View quote
Gabrielle Reece
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there. View quote
Gordie Howe
It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on. View quote
James P. Hoffa
In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it. (James Wolk)
I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on. View quote
Jana Kramer
I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl. View quote
Jana Kramer
I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family. View quote
Jeff Daniels
We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success. (John Engler)
Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating. View quote
John Engler
I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms. View quote
John Engler
In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget. View quote
Justin Amash
Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class. View quote
Kevin O'Leary