Detroit Quotes

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.

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.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles. I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually.

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.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

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

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.

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.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

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.

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.

It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

There ain't no haints in Detroit.

It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.