Industrial City Quotes

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

I'm from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

There is not much sun, but I didn't move to Manchester to go to the beach.

Pittsburgh is a very unique place.

I'm from Buffalo, which is a blue-collar city, and I've kind of embraced that.

There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

My mum and dad came from lower-working-class Glasgow, which was tough. Literally, if you see a cat there with a tail, it's a tourist.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my local trade union that projected me my political life. And if I fail, when I go back to my hometown, it's going to take another century for another worker, another member of the working class to reach the presidency, because people are going to say that the workers do not have the competency to run a country.

I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.

Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all this other stuff. The city was really depleted.