Top 212 Detroit Quotes

My mother always taught me that two wrongs don’t make a right. We shouldn’t bail out Wall Street. We shouldn’t bail out Detroit. It will cost the economy more than the cost of the bailout which is more than the politicians think. We’ll run into the hundred of millions to prop these companies up.

I got ‘Smooth’ when I was growing up. I got ‘Bigshot’ playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me ‘Smooth.’

I have a really good relationship with a lot of people in the music industry from Detroit. They’re very kind when it comes to us stepping into their field or what they do and they’re really willing to help out and help you get better at what you’re trying to do.

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.

Outside of my parents, it’s my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She’s somebody I’ve always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.

My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father’s work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad’s legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.

My mother taught me to drive using the ‘Detroit Method,’ where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

It’s ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that’s going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I’m doing this crummy work.

Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.

Detroit is known as ‘Hockeytown,’ but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.

For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves – like, wide scarves with fringe – and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long – almost like a tie.

It’s really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I’m going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I’d scare you.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Baltimore and Detroit – they are solid cities.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world’s most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

I think when you saw this year’s playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they’re starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.

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

I was 16. In the middle of the night, I took a taxi to the Detroit train station – or maybe it was the Pontiac train station? – and got on a train to Chicago, then transferred to a train to San Diego where my boyfriend was living at the time.

I’ve gone to Detroit. I’ve been to Ferguson; I’ve been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I’m the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I’m a different kind of Republican.

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

I was born in Detroit, then shortly after I was born, I went on the road with my mother, who performed with Minsky’s, a variety show that toured around the U.S. doing five shows a day.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the ’60s.

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

Though I’d have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

I would definitely pick Flint over Detroit any day.

I’ll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn’t know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I’m like, ‘What’s wrong with that? Everywhere else has it! Why can’t we?’

One of the first things I learned from veteran teammates – as a minor league player in the Detroit Tigers organization – was that you do everything in your power to stay out of the training room. It’s a survival of the fittest thing.

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.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was ‘Detroit Rock City.’ I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

I just enjoyed bar mitzvahs as a kid, and there was this company in the Detroit area where I grew up, and I think they recruited me as a party dancer – you know, like, you dance around and pass out glow sticks. I quickly rose in the ranks and, within a year, became an emcee, which was kind of unheard of.

I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit, watching my mother learn how to drive for the first time.

It’s still a trip for me to see somebody that I’ve only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it’s very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

Honestly, Detroit really wasn’t on my list. I really didn’t look into it much until I sat down with my brother and looked at the roster. It was kind of a perfect fit.

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.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the ‘no’ – and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the ‘no.’

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

I’m a Detroit player, they set styles.

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

I’m from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn’t care about anything but boyfriends.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called ‘The Dogs That Ate Detroit.’ It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

If you want to land a punchline for how bad something is, you say ‘Detroit,’ even, like, in conversation. ‘Oh, well, things could be worse. You could be in Detroit.’ It makes me so mad.

Iraq is just like New York. It’s just like Detroit. It’s where people live and raise their families.

Detroit is beautiful – though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.