Suburbs Quotes · Page 3

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

— Stephen Collins

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

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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

— Bill Henson

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

— Tom Perrotta

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.

— Cheryl Hines

I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino.

— Alonzo Bodden

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

— Cynthia Heimel

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that…

— Jane Jacobs

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to…

— Isabelle Huppert

I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road…

— Mike Nesbitt

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a…

— Alexander Hanson

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which…

— Alex Steffen

The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her…

— Chrissie Hynde

I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western…

— J. G. Ballard

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something…

— Shia LaBeouf

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in…

— Stephen Hunter

“He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out…

— T.C. Boyle

Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years…

— James Howard Kunstler

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived…

— Jane Jacobs

The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most…

— Arthur Kroker

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

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

— John Muir

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

— Havelock Ellis

“It was like hundreds of roads he'd driven over - no different - a stretch of tar, lusterless, scaley, humping toward the…

— George A. Zorn

“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at…

— Colin Walsh

“There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the…

— Jane Jacobs

Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying.…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Harlan Coben

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

— Robin Boyd

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Bryan Brown

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

— Francis Quarles

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

— Thomas E. Mann

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's…

— Suge Knight

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride...

— Pete Munro