Best Suburban Sayings

125 Suburban quotes by 107 unique authors

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. — Margaret Mead
If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away… — Sarah Schulman
I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. — Tina Fey
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the… — Rachel Cusk
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends,… — Rachel Cusk
I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. — Richard M Daley
Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio,… — Evan Davis
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar… — Jesse Eisenberg
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban… — Jerry Falwell
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. — Tom Hardy
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. — Helmut Jahn
Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls. — Penn Jillette
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing… — Jonathan Kozol
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower… — Jonathan Kozol
I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move… — Marina and the Diamonds
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. — Marlee Matlin
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. — Marshall McLuhan
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. — Ezra Pound
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. — Bertrand Russell
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. — Rob Sheffield
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night… — Rob Sheffield
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured… — Jane Smiley
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. — Peter De Vries

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