Suburbs Quotes

136 quotes by 127 authors

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to… — J. G. Ballard
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just… — Jorge Luis Borges
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's… — Tom Brady
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. — William S. Burroughs
In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a… — Julian Casablancas
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the… — Harlan Coben
We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York. — Harlan Coben
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
I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride... — Pete Munro
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... — Alexander McCall Smith
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see… — Ralph Nader
If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is… — Russell Crowe
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to… — Grace Lee Boggs
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends — Rooney Mara
Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity. — Tina Fey
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once… — Ed Koch
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by… — Teju Cole
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. — Alexander Woollcott

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