“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.”
“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”
| Roland Allen, Clergyman (1868) |
| Ashleigh Banfield, Journalist (1967) |
| Pablo Casals, Musician (1876) |
| Ted Danson, Actor (1947) |
| Jennifer Ehle, Actress (1969) |
| Samuel G. Engel, Writer (1904) |
| Marianne Faithfull, Musician (1946) |
| William Gaddis, Novelist (1922) |
| William E. Gladstone, Leader (1809) |
| Josefa Iloilo, Statesman (1920) |
| Cleveland Abbe, Scientist (1916) |
| Jacques-Louis David, Artist (1825) |