Michigan Quotations

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.

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

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.

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

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

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

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.

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

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

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

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

I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

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.

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

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

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.

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

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.

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

We usually run well at Michigan ... I used the whole racetrack coming off turn four and that probably hurt us a little bit. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

We started slow, but we once we started to play Michigan Tech volleyball everything started to work out. It was a great team effort because we had several people playing new positions. The girls stepped up to the challenge and I am very proud of the way they were able to earn a win on a very difficult road trip.

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Where is the soul of New Orleans? ... Vegas and Utah , parts of Texas, California , Michigan , Baton Rouge. It's all over.

When you think of great college football programs, Michigan is one of the first you consider.

There is no question that ethanol is competitive and that it is already replacing some foreign oil. And I think Michigan is clearly on its way to creating a strong ethanol industry.

We've been able to grow together. I love that about this group. They've done a lot to be able to put Michigan basketball in the position it deserves, which is a winning, first-class program.

What a crazy, exciting time it is. Since my wife told me the Monday before Michigan she was pregnant, it's been crazy. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I'm trying to live in the moment and do everything I can to get prepared.

We had 10,337 people in the seats last Sunday, ... No church, no mosque, no synagogue in Michigan came close to that. Anybody like me is going to have detractors ... because I get things done.

We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now.

We faced all the Big Ten schools and they really showed themselves and represented Eastern Michigan well. I think they opened people's eyes up to what Eastern Michigan diving is all about.

Three years here at Michigan State's great. I want to finish out my fourth year but if the opportunity comes and it's the right situation, then I'll have a decision to make.

We knew this was going to be a tough stretch for us having to come up here to Central Michigan and then go to Eastern Michigan Saturday. I was happy with the way we started, but disappointed with the way we ended. We just weren't aggressive enough in the second half and we didn't match their intensity.

Wales is delighted to be partnering with the state of Michigan, who we consider to be a leader in the ITS American arena. We see huge synergies between Michigan and Wales and look forward to further developing these opportunities.

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?.

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

We did have a weak University of Michigan confidence index ... but on the flip side, you had the producer price index, which came in a little strong.

There are gaps in his timeline that we are concerned about. Nothing outside of Michigan has been confirmed yet.

We held serve at home and I'm really proud of our seniors and our veterans the way we fought back. And I can't say enough about Michigan State.

We hear about it all season. People always ask me, 'Who do you have next week?' I'll tell them, 'San Diego State' and they'll say, 'You play good in that game ? and make sure you beat Michigan this year.' And, man, we'll still have five games left!

We didn't want to risk anything with the knee. He tore it at Michigan Duals and he's already back and he beat a kid in the quarterfinals that took fourth in state last year. He looked really good.

The people of Michigan will play an important role in this survey,

The people of Michigan are generous in their concern and assistance in times of need. We pull together as a community to help in any way we can.

The 'Pancakes & Politics' series is designed to attract a diverse group of policy and decision makers in Southeast Michigan to generate dialogue and debate around the issues that affect the economic and social well-being of the community. The series' overall goal is to provoke thought and generate new ideas in various sectors that will continue to push our community forward.

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

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.

There are two teams I'd like to play for. The Texans, who have a lot of young talented guys who can be great players, and the Lions, since I'm from Michigan -- and it would give me the chance to go against Charles Rogers every day.

We've seen a lot of games. I was actually watching ESPN Classic the other day and they showed four Michigan games in a row from this year. We've seen plenty on them, and we know what they're going to do.

We had been playing well prior to our game with Boston U. We have to get it back because of the way Michigan State is playing.

Losing that match (to Michigan last week) hurt badly. You come off that match saying 'Man, I wish I could've done this thing or that thing.' But now we have another chance less than a week later, so it feels great.

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

She said that the state of Michigan would pay for all of our closing costs and five percent down." ()

(Ole Miss) brought in a new offensive coordinator (Dan Werner) and I thought it was kind of too late to get to know him and the coaching staff before I could make up my mind. I thought it was too late so I just decided to choose between Michigan and Tennessee.

Simply, what you had was too many men on the field by Nebraska -- a whole slew of them -- and Michigan had two or three extra men out there. Since both teams had too many men and both teams fouled, it was an offsetting penalty, and the game was over. I think it might have been wise to throw penalty flags and to announce, to say, that it was an offsetting penalty; the game was over.

She hasn't been happy her last two outings, she wasn't particularly happy with herself against Michigan State and/or UIC. I thought she really stepped it up. I probably cost her a no-hitter, I went back with a curve ball and probably should have thrown a change-up, I was just trying to get the game over with and that was my fault.

Since we got back from Michigan State, we didn't just talk about Indiana. We started talking about this week. We've grouped these two games together.

Me and a couple guys were talking about a parade on State Street or Michigan Avenue.

More and more taxpayers are using e-file and last year we saw more Michigan taxpayers file electronically than file by paper. It's fast, secure and easy.

My Dad has two sons that play at Michigan and he's very supportive - that simplifies things a little bit.

Obviously, for us to win one or two more games wouldn't hurt. But we're the No. 1-ranked conference in America and we've been able to finish .500 along with Michigan State. We're both 8-8 and we split with one another. No one's talking about Michigan State not being in.

Right now, just 9 percent of engineers in Southeast Michigan are women. Automation Alley supports the STEPS camp as a part of our commitment to ensuring that Southeast Michigan has a well-prepared, diverse technology workforce well into the future.

Poor employment trends clearly are weighing on sentiment, ... The (IBD) data is consistent with a meaningful decline in the Michigan survey.

Nobody probably thought they could beat Michigan State and North Carolina back-to-back. They played with a great purpose and a great passion. (Coming in) I was scared to death, to be honest with you. In saying all that, I still thought we were going to win the game.

I was really, really proud of the team. There was sort of a turn-around from the Central Michigan game to the Northwestern game within 24 hours. They came out, played hard, played well. They were doing the things we were asking them to do. They played good hockey.

I wish they were not in Michigan as an extreme group. I like to run my own campaign.

I was pleased with the effort (against Ohio State), especially in the fourth quarter when things could have gotten out of hand. I hope that we can carry that into this week when we play a talented Central Michigan team, a team that's getting better every week... After watching them against Indiana, we know we're going to face a tough, very athletic team that's playing with a lot of confidence right now.

If this 401(k) money is used just on Michigan businesses, I'm afraid they'll use this money to save The Big Three (automakers).

Ideally, I'd like for each representative in the Michigan Legislature to get 24,000-plus letters and e-mails from students asking for their support for the project.

I always wanted to go to Michigan since I was pretty young. When you thought of college hockey, you usually thought of Michigan.

I always wanted to beat Michigan. When you come into the Big Ten you always want to beat the teams like Michigan and Ohio State. After what happened a couple of years ago, it's really great to get this win.

I am very proud to claim Mrs. Parks as a resident of Michigan and to help lead the effort to honor her in this way, ... Rosa Parks was a great woman of immense courage and historical importance. I can think of no one else who deserves this honor more.

Central Michigan ran a lot of the same stuff that Northwestern runs. So that's pretty much like two weeks we have had to prepare for Northwestern.

Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country.

I'm at a point in my career when my age and nearly 25 years of service, the responsibility of the Ford name, and my father's legacy in Southeast Michigan community affairs, puts me at a crossroads.

I fell asleep in the second quarter. Fortunately, I caught some highlights later. It didn't look like Michigan wanted to be there.

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.

I don't think we were necessarily tested for our style against Western Michigan because of all those three-step passes. Syracuse will be a better test because I believe we're a tough defense and they're a tough offense and they're going to come right at us.

I enjoyed Michigan State, and camaraderie with my teammates was great. About halfway through the season I decided that I just didn't want to be there after the season. I didn't want to spend all of my college years there.

GM's investments demonstrate our commitment to continuously improve our products. They also show our dedication to strengthening our Michigan manufacturing operations.

If the governor signs this bill, she will send a message to the international and national business community that Michigan is serious about competing in the global economy.

He works extremely hard during practice. He's also showing a great deal of leadership as a senior. Michigan State has already offered him a scholarship.

He went to the University of Michigan after the war and won the NCAA all by himself in match play, ... That's as big a thing as the national amateur. Dave can do it.

Greg Hill had a great game for us. We rode him to this victory. Michigan City's tough to play. They're got athletes and quickness, just like us.

He himself has brought our family closer together. There's almost 30 out here for each of his games against Michigan and Ohio State with his uncles, aunts and cousins.

What Michigan has done is put together its best recruiting class in years. Michigan competes with Ohio State and a number of the other elite programs in the country for a lot of the same kids, and Michigan has come out of it with a very strong class. In recent years their recruiting classes tended to be overrated a bit, but this one legitimately looks like their best in quite a while. They really solidified their core, and added much-needed speed.

We've been very dependent upon Michigan residents to drive our tourism economy here, and now that the economy is in trouble here in the state and discretionary income is not available as it has been in the past, we are seeing a significant impact in the tourism.

We just have to clean it up a little. If Michigan State beats us, then we want them to beat us; we do not want to give it to them.