Suburbs Quotes

I grew up in the suburbs.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

The suburbs dream of violence.

— J. G. Ballard

Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

— Michael Stipe

“We're not in infinity, we're in the suburbs.”

— David O. Russell

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

— Anna Sui

“This isn't infinity. This is the suburbs.”

— David O. Russell

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

— Mason Cooley

We lived in a slum area in the suburbs of Mumbai.

— Johnny Lever

Honey, what's the point of being in the suburbs if you're not going to f**k a gardener?

— Samantha Jones

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

— William S. Burroughs

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

I grew up in Paris. Well, in the suburbs of Paris.

— Camille Rowe

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

— H. L. Mencken

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

— Tina Fey

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

— Mason Cooley

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up…

— Denise Levertov

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

— Paul Laffoley

I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise…

— Dani Shapiro

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the…

— Alex Steffen

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in…

— Thao Nguyen

I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and…

— Jane Levy

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the…

— Anna Quindlen

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I attended the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1978 to 1984.

— Christine Blasey Ford

I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small…

— Sam Abell

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final…

— Harlan Coben

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs.…

— Meg Rosoff

“One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in…

— Julian Barnes

The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard…

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and…

— Alex Steffen

There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There's an inter-dimensional vortex that opens…

— Frederick Lenz

The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country.…

— Michael Moore

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material…

— David Shi

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back…

— Charles Kingsley

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the…

— Karen Walton

“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous…

— Alice McDermott

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place…

— John Muir

Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or…

— Robert Christopher Riley

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at…

— Havelock Ellis

“Suburbia Knocks by Stewart Stafford Covert dawn's surreptitious light, A magpie sentry's warning song, Swooping, scanning silent streets, Cackling danger all night…

— Stewart Stafford