Michigan Quotes

Michigan Quote of the day

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

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.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

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.

Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

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.

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

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.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

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

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.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

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.

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.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

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.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

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.

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

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.

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.

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.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

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.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.

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.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.