Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“the murder rate has fallen by 16.7 per cent in the US cities since the turn of the century, while rising by… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit in your hair.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade… — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It was like hundreds of roads he'd driven over - no different - a stretch of tar, lusterless, scaley, humping toward the… — George A. Zorn Copy Share Image
“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at… — Colin Walsh Copy Share Image
“In 1995 Bank of America issued a famous report on sprawl in California. The bank pronounced: 'Urban job centers have decentralized to… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
