Suburbs Quotes
136 Suburbs quotes by 125 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
— William S. Burroughs
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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
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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
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
— Harlan Coben
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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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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
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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
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The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride...
— Pete Munro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.
— Tina Fey
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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
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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
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Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
— Alexander Woollcott
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Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -…
— Clive James
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Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas…
— Theodore White
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A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to…
— Tom Morello
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We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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