Best Suburban Sayings
125 Suburban quotes by 107 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.
— Tina Fey
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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
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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
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I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
— Richard M Daley
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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
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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
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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
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I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
— Tom Hardy
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A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
— Helmut Jahn
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Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.
— Penn Jillette
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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
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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
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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
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Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
— Marlee Matlin
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
— Marshall McLuhan
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
— Ezra Pound
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
— Bertrand Russell
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'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
— Rob Sheffield
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'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
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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
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
— Anthony Trollope
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
— Peter De Vries
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107 authors contributed a total of 125 Suburban Quotes, led by these top contributors: