Suburbia Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching…
— Harlan Coben
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent…
— Eric Sevareid
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People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree…
— Roger Swain
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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays
— Beth Henley
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I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the…
— Bill Henson
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We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place…
— Dana Spiotta
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Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some…
— Penelope Spheeris
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Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
— James Howard Kunstler
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I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.
— Bob McDonnell
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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up…
— Hari Kunzru
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Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
— James Howard Kunstler
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Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a…
— James Howard Kunstler
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Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real…
— Sloane Crosley
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Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia.…
— Sloane Crosley
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in…
— Natalie Portman
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
— Bill Vaughan
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I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
— Sylvia Plath
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This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
— Lauren Oliver
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never…
— Eldridge Cleaver
Who Wrote These Suburbia Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Suburbia Quotes as follows: