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Quotes About Detroit

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
~ Eminem
The things that we did in Detroit will never be done again. Our record of holding seven teams under 70 points will never be done again.
~ Rasheed Wallace
I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
~ Obie Trice
In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
The skinny kid from Detroit's
~ Gregg Lewis
We want to win a World Series for Detroit. That's our goal.
~ Miguel Cabrera
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.
~ Leonard Slatkin
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.
~ Robert J. Shiller
Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.
~ Stan Van Gundy
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.
~ James Wolk
7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.
~ Obie Trice
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
~ Gerald R. Ford
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
~ Jordin Sparks
I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.
~ Ryan Gosling
I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.
~ Zac Brown
But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the
~ Beverly Jenkins
But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.
~ Beverly Jenkins
You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.
~ Beverly Jenkins
He retired the side and struck out the final two batters—Champ Summers and Lou Whitaker—to end the game. Bob Uecker's radio call of the final out: "Good-bye, Detroit. Hello, New York" was an instant classic.
~ Bill Schroeder
I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.
~ Big Sean
There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women's lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu's Lingerie. They were great. They did well.
~ Ted Raimi
Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.
~ India Arie
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
~ Ted Lindsay