Suburbs Quotes · Page 3

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

— Robin Boyd

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

— Harlan Coben

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

— Bryan Brown

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

— Thomas E. Mann

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

— Francis Quarles

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

— Melissa Bean

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

— Ed Koch

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

— Stephen Collins

“If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit in your hair.”

— David Sedaris

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool…

— Wilkie Collins

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to…

— Tom Odell

I don't like the midnight closing on weekends. It's one thing to tell people they have to drive to Jiffy Lube Live…

— Robert James Thomson

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if…

— Susan Faludi

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce…

— Teju Cole

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice…

— Ice Cube

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's…

— Harlan Coben

There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about…

— Richard Hell

I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my…

— Gideon Glick

My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of…

— Rose Byrne

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I…

— Leos Carax

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of…

— Jan Morris

We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive…

— St. Lucia

I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew…

— Alan G. Poindexter

How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included…

— Ishmael Reed

We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s…

— Herbert Muschamp

But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if…

— David Quammen

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had…

— Jon Stewart

“In the 1954 Internal Revenue Code, a Republican Congress changed forty-year, straight-line depreciation for buildings to permit 'accelerated depreciation' of greenfield income-producing…

— Dolores Hayden

“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of…

— Tom McDonough

Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it…

— Charles de Lint

I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so…

— Bill Henson

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

— John Fahey

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

— Tom Perrotta

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

— Bill Henson

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

— John D. Barrow

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.

— Young Thug

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

— Louis Kronenberger

Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth…

— Tim Kaine