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Detroit Quotes

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

City Detroit Involved Been Just Tom

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

Saying Name Detroit Hollywood Up

Detroit is part of my family and part of my life, my home.

Life Family Home My Life Detroit

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

Learning Time Writing Doing Detroit

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

Sports Time Team Win Detroit More

In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.

God City World Detroit Always Up

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

Community Food Church Detroit Donate

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

Sergio Marchionne

America Detroit Eat Act Like Native

Detroit is full of talent.

Talent Detroit Full

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

Bad Detroit Rock Roll Rock N Roll

One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.

City White Young Detroit Line Mayor

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Music Time Man City World Detroit

For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

Support City Me Honor Detroit Land

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

Beginning College Detroit Old Radio

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

Today Me Saying Poverty Detroit Up

I think Detroit deserves a comedy that's not about suffering.

Suffering Think Comedy Detroit About

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

Beautiful Child Me You Detroit See

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

Care You Know Detroit Never Motown

Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

Plant Friends Detroit Three More

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

People Detroit Say Never 1920s Huge

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

Fire Baseball Think Detroit Same

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.

Mayer Hawthorne

Grow You Healthy Detroit Grow Up Up

Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.

Fire Basketball Tough Detroit Coach

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

Black Born Detroit Neighborhood

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