Suburbs Quotes · Page 3

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

— Billy Corgan

I like living in the city. I really don't like the suburbs.

— Malcolm Jenkins

“They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.”

— Michael Davidow

I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“I pray for the kids in the suburbs… I pray that one day, we’ll all graduate from similarity.”

— J. Merridew

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

— Dave Foley

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Camille Rowe

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of…

— Tibor Fischer

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion…

— John Major

I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in…

— Robert Powell

In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be…

— Milton Berle

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

— JR

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to…

— Harlan Coben

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to…

— Umberto Eco

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st…

— Tess Gerritsen

Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in…

— Stella Benson

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns…

— Bob Taft

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else…

— Paul Hawken

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a…

— Jon Katz

But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a…

— Anne Frasier

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and…

— Chris Webber

I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect…

— Rumaan Alam

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that…

— Anne-Marie Duff

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

— David Quammen

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

— Herbert Muschamp

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

— Ishmael Reed

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in…

— Timothy Egan

Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that…

— Tim Kaine

“Thinking back, I can almost feel the air in the commons that day, the things eddying around us. We were breathing in…

— Meredith Miller

I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent…

— Richard Clayderman

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

— Jon Stewart

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Tina Fey

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— William S. Burroughs

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

— Samantha Jones

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

— Gustaf Skarsgard

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population…

— Jason Epstein

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The…

— Mary Downing Hahn