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125 Suburban quotes by 107 unique authors

Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell… — Paul Weller
I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other… — Rainn Wilson
Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and… — Edward Abbey
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… — Betty Friedan
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished… — Thomas Pynchon
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of… — Sloane Crosley
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden… — Stephen King
I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey. — Markus Zusak
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this… — Russell Brand
We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for… — Simone Elkeles
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to… — Robert Anton Wilson
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone… — Alain de Botton
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine,… — Ellen Hopkins
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of… — William H. Gass
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl… — Neil Gaiman
Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it. — Neal Shusterman
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping… — Bjarke Ingels
I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept. — Matt Passmore
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport. — Richard Rogers
The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized… — Michelle Grabner
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project… — Noam Chomsky
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working. — J. C. Chandor

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