Suburban Quotes

125 quotes by 108 authors

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
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. — David Byrne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal. — Steven F. Hayward
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. — Helmut Jahn
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
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

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