Quotes and Sayings about Detroit

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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.

Marvin Gaye

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

Kristen Bell

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.

Elmore Leonard

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You lift me up when I'm on the ground
But as soon as I get up, child, you send me tumbling down
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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.

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1

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Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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1

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

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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.

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4

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

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1

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.

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