quotes about Michigan
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Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
-- Angel HazeSource : " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
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Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
-- Bob Seger -
Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.
-- Brent Musburger -
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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 -
If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.
-- Dave Foley -
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year,
-- David Alan GrierSource : "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.
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The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
-- Derek Jeter -
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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
-- Eli Broad -
But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
-- Ernie HarwellSource : Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing
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God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
-- Ernie Harwell -
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
-- Ernie Harwell -
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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 -
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
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 HoweSource : Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.
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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
-- James Earl Jones -
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In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.
-- James Henry Breasted -
It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
-- James P. Hoffa -
I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family
-- Jeff Daniels -
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
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We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.
-- Jennifer GranholmSource : Jennifer Granholm, Daniel Granholm Mulhern (2011). “A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future”, p.74, PublicAffairs
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I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.
-- Jerome Bettis -
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
-- Jesmyn Ward -
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan,
-- Jim Harbaugh -
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.
-- Jim Harbaugh -
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
-- Jim Harrison -
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
-- Jim Harrison -
I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
-- John Engler -
Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.
-- John Engler -
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The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
-- John Engler -
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 -
The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.
-- 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 -
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What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.
-- Libba Bray -
Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
-- Lily Tomlin -
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
-- Mario Batali -
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
-- Mat JohnsonSource : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau
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Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
-- Michael Moore -
I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.
-- Michael Moore -
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
-- Michael Moore -
I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.
-- Paul Feig -
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Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.
-- Paul Kersey -
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
-- Sarah Zettel -
In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.
-- Simon Blackburn -
I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.
-- Tom IzzoSource : "Tom Izzo makes wise decision", www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2010.
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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people
-- Verne TroyerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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[Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.
-- Claudio SanchezSource : Source: www.npr.org
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The rank of a university is similar to an index number say like the NASDAQ index. I don't understand how you can take an institution like Harvard, Stanford, or Michigan, and represent it by an index number. The concept makes no sense.
-- Henry RosovskySource : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.
-- Jana KramerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.
-- Jana KramerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem.
-- Julie Roberts -
It's also time to hold Donald Trump accountable to what he governed on. I thought the next morning after the election, there was a little squib in the paper, 2,000 workers are going to be laid off in Lordstown, Ohio and Lansing, Michigan.
-- Katrina vanden HeuvelSource : Source: abcnews.go.com