Suburban Quotes
125 quotes by 108 authors
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform.…
— Manolo Blahnik
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Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
— David Byrne
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I…
— Karen Allen
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the…
— Betty Friedan
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People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to…
— Henry Rollins
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing -…
— Maurice Strong
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough…
— Edward Abbey
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I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.
— Steven F. Hayward
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My life is actually very boring. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact…
— Jane Green
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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
— Hanif Kureishi
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I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption…
— Maurice Strong
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We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home…
— John Fire Lame Deer
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual…
— Eric Fischl
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I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration…
— Helmut Jahn
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I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
— Helmut Jahn
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It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who - all of a sudden - their…
— Arne Duncan
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A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation…
— George Will
Who Wrote These Suburban Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 125 Suburban Quotes, led by these top contributors: