#detroit

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#cities #detroit #industry #jobs #michigan

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. ↗

— Eminem

#detroit #i #rough #smooth #talker

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#auto #auto industry #because #detroit #economist

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me. ↗

— Rick Danko

#chance #detroit #entertain #far #founded

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

#bay #been #days #detroit #football

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#detroit #heaven #hell #out #turned

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

— Diana Ross

#call #detroit #ghetto #i #part

We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place. ↗

— Charles Phillips

#going #had #here #i #just

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit. ↗

— Eddie Floyd

#detroit #i #just #moved #old

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#city #detroit #hockey #i #knew