Suburban Quotes
125 Suburban quotes by 107 unique authors
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I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation…
— James Howard Kunstler
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In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to…
— Alfie Kohn
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The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things
— James Howard Kunstler
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
— Oscar Wilde
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Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's…
— Tony Hoagland
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.
— Michael Jordan
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I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they…
— Nina Bawden
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Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying,
— Lena Dunham
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
— Norman Douglas
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save…
— Stewart Udall
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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban…
— Tom Perrotta
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My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays…
— Tom Perrotta
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People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe…
— Leonard Slatkin
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for…
— Dannel Malloy
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The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.
— Phillip Lopate
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Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the…
— John Larroquette
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I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.
— Bryan Brown
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.
— Neil Young
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The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage…
— Peter Bergen
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And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of…
— Peter Bergen
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