Quotes and Sayings about Detroit

You can leave Detroit, but it will never leave you.

There's cities that get by on their good looks. Detroit has to work for a living.

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

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

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

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

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

Biden has won so many times in Michigan now.
He's legally required to change his name to Ohio State.

Michigans throw up their right hand to show what part of Michigan they live in.

Michigan's beauty lies beyond the busy city, where the only sounds heard are the shimmering of the trees, and the only sight seen is the beauty of earth's natural creation.

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

I don't need no money, fortune, or fame
I got all the riches baby, one man can claim

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that, then I realized I am somebody

Hate saying that you're the reason I have these scars

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

You lift me up when I'm on the ground
But as soon as I get up, child, you send me tumbling down
Now your love is like a see saw

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Trump's years in office are years we cannot get back. But more dangerous than the loss of time is allowing Trump's precedents to take root.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

I'll go to war with those guys any day.

Lookie, how can six dicks be p*ssies?

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.