Suburb Quotes

66 Suburb quotes by 63 unique authors

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. — Olivier Martinez
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed… — Dylan Walsh
The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in… — David Riesman
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. — David Riesman
Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely. — Stevie Smith
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty… — Stevie Smith
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything… — Gary Oldman
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb.… — Kid Cudi
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of… — Daryl Hall
I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU… — Gideon Glick
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city… — Barbara Jordan
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high… — Jeffrey Kluger
I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against. — Patton Oswalt
I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues,… — Vanessa Paradis
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The… — Jonathan Raban
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art… — Jerry Saltz
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl… — P.D. James
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a… — Alain de Botton
I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in… — Fernando Pessoa
The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious… — Brennan Manning
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. — Unknown Author
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too… — Jason Epstein
I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I… — Abigail Washburn
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach.… — Richie Benaud

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