Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. — Jim Harrison
Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football. — Jim Harbaugh
Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word. — Glenn Frey
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. — Jim Harbaugh
I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime. — Jim Harbaugh
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan. — Jim Harbaugh
Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state! — Bear Bryant
Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it. — Big Sean
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. — Dan Quayle
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes. — Mike Pence
To the north, above the Great Lakes, lies the Canadian Shield, the world’s largest area of Precambrian Rock, much of which forms a barrier to human settlement. — Tim Marshall
New Jersey I’d say is one of the top 50 states. — Theo Von
Short Michigan Quotes
It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do. — Jim Harbaugh
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations. — Jim Harbaugh
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year. — David Alan Grier
I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State. — Tom Izzo
The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband. — Dan Rather
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. — Jim Harrison
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan. — Jimmy Buffett
Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans. — Sayings
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan. — Jerome Bettis
Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating. — John Engler
Michigan Image Quotes
Lake Michigan Quotes
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. — Michelle Obama
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Jean Shepherd
A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach! — George Eiferman
As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy. — Debbie Stabenow
A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind. — Brent Musburger
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. — Bill Scott
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent. — Doug Rice
I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak. — Emo Philips
I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming. — Mark Ruffalo
Michigan State Quotes
We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money. — Woody Hayes
Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan. — Fielding H. Yost
You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare. — Bret Bielema
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique. — John Calipari
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. — Jim Harrison
All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others. — John Engler
In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget. — Justin Amash
By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana. — James Monroe
I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton. — Bill Burton
I don't want them to move their plants. I want them to stay in Michigan. I want them to stay in all of the places where they are, or expanding to other places. But I want it to be in the United States. I don't want them to go to Mexico. — Donald Trump
University Of Michigan Quotes
Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock. — Denard Robinson
I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. — Margo Martindale
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. — Sarah Zettel
When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. — Mike Wallace
Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system. — Adam Schiff
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher. — Marta Kristen
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. — Stephen Hawking
So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home. — Bill Ayers
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War. — Bill Ayers
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night. — Davy Rothbart
Detroit Quotes
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. — Steve Yzerman
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. — Gerald R. Ford
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. — Ted Nugent
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
Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet. — Steve Kluger
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. — Doug Collins
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. — Grace Lee Boggs
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. — Diana Ross
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did. — John Lee Hooker
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. — Casey Kasum
But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of their university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours. — Fielding H. Yost
Jobs have already started to surge. Since my election, Ford announced it will abandon its plans to build a new factory in Mexico and will instead invest $700 million in Michigan, creating many, many jobs. Fiat/Chrysler announced it will invest $1 billion in Ohio and Michigan creating 2,000 American jobs. — Donald Trump
The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in places like Flint, Michigan, where families and children are devastated and destroyed by completely failed infrastructure because of lack of investment. — Tulsi Gabbard
It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out. — Evan Peters
I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need — Jennifer Granholm
Can we get out of this system something good for us? We could, if we were united with an intelligent self-interest that we could push, we might be able to get something. But, America is out to destroy the little man - I'm talking about those in the highest places. Flint, Michigan [contaminated water supply] was not an accident, that's by design. — Louis Farrakhan
Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will. — Keith Ellison
The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there. — Bill Ayers
All you have to do is look at Michigan and look at Ohio and look at all of these places where so many of their jobs and their companies are just leaving, they're gone. — Donald Trump
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner. — Helmut Jahn
You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c." — Marva Collins
I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel. — Kid Rock
Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.I've called upon it time and time again.And so have countless other Michigan athletes and coaches.There is nothing like it.I hope it never dies. — Fritz Crisler
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there. — Gordie Howe
The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success. — John Engler
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. — John Engler
I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms. — John Engler
It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan. — Glenn Frey
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