Suburban Quotes

125 Suburban quotes by 107 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying, — Lena Dunham
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. — Norman Douglas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs. — Bryan Brown
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
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
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
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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