Suburbia Quotes

21 Suburbia quotes by 17 unique authors

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
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
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
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley
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
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
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
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. — James Howard Kunstler
I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia. — Bob McDonnell
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
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
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
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
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
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
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan
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
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
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
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
It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice… — Vikas Swarup

Who Wrote These Suburbia Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 21 Suburbia Quotes as follows: