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
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
“Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There's an inter-dimensional vortex that opens… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard… — Paul Downs Colaizzo 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'm from New York. I grew up there. I grew up in Westchester County, the suburbs. For me, that was always the… — Guillermo E. Brown 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
“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 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
“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
“Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?'… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. — JR Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion… — John Major Copy Share Image
We moved around a ton when I was a kid. I think we lived in 9 different houses before I was 15… — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love...… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
