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Quotes About Michigan

At Michigan, my defense was kind of up and down because I played a lot of minutes and I was kind of scared to foul.
~ Caris LeVert
I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.
~ John 5
I love 'The Walking Dead.' Steven Yeun who plays Glenn, is from Michigan and is a really close friend of mine as well.
~ Andre Drummond
There'd be a call from Michigan Scout, then Michigan Rivals, then Iowa Scout, then Iowa Rivals. These guys are competing, and I'm just the guy in the middle giving them the story.
~ Myron Rolle
What many Americans heard about Jews they got from Henry Ford, operating out of a Michigan base less than three hundred miles from Indianapolis. His newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, was a fire hose of anti-Semitism and reached a peak circulation of nearly one million readers.
~ Timothy Egan
Nationwide, the Klan had expanded to nearly three million members, and most of the growth was in the Northern states, Steve's domain—Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. Out West, Colorado and Oregon were adding to their Klan rolls just as quickly.
~ Timothy Egan
My brother went to Ohio State. I think Cris Carter just graduated, but Cris was there a lot. I got a chance to go up there and watch the battle between Ohio State and Michigan.
~ Ken Griffey Jr.
the Ann Arbor, Michigan, School Board, near where I live, had a debate as to whether the primary mission of their schools was imparting knowledge or raising self-esteem. Self-esteem won.
~ Will Storr
In July 2000 a court in Kalamazoo, Michigan, gave an unusually lenient sentence to José Rodriguez, a member of a street gang called the Latin Kings who had been found guilty of firebombing. According to a report in the Holland Sentinel, a local newspaper, the defendant's counsel 'noted that Rodriguez was a unique person because he reads the encyclopedia and dictionary for pleasure'.
~ Henry Hitchings
Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.
~ Adam Schiff
At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.
~ Lou Barlow
I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
~ K. A. Applegate
We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.
~ Jennifer Granholm
Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.
~ Tracy Letts
BILL: Anyway, if you want me to explain the creepy character of the Midwest, you're asking the wrong— BARBARA: Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.
~ Tracy Letts
Early in the morning of October 8, 1991, Mrs. Florence A. Snegg of Uvula, Michigan, was having an extremely vivid dream in which her son, Russell, was involved in a terrible automobile accident. Suddenly she was awakened by the ringing of her telephone. On the line was a Missouri state trooper, calling long distance to remind Mrs. Snegg that she had never had children
~ Dave Barry
Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.
~ William Saroyan
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
~ Hillary Clinton
Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
~ Lily Tomlin
That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.
~ Jennifer Granholm
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The ground was uneven, treacherous with roots, but the pine needles were soft underfoot. For a moment, despite my foul mood, I felt it: the crisp northern Michigan delight. A slight chill to the air, even in August, something almost Russian. The indigo sky above the black bay. The smell of cedar and pine.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
MFA program at the University of Michigan when we met.
~ Jennifer Coburn
Omigahd," she laughed again. "You are such the after shot now. You look so, so New York." Youaaare such the aaaafter shaaat naaaw. Michigan. This state has been sponsored by the Letter A.
~ Jennifer Coburn