The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent…

“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer…

— Robin Sloan

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

— J. C. Chandor

I'm originally a suburban girl from New Jersey, but I've lived in many places on both sides of the country, which has informed a…

— Alisyn Camerota

For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I'm a gangsta rap suburban father!

— Killer Mike

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know…

— Lindsay Duncan

In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart.…

— Porochista Khakpour

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been…

— Tom Perrotta

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and…

— Gregory Crewdson

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

— Stewart O'Nan

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

— Penn Jillette

“This house is a prison, a suburban Alcatraz.”

— Heather Demetrios

“Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.”

— Bauvard

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.

— James Wan

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

— Tony Evans

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” —Peter De Vries”

— Jenny Lee Sulpizio