Suburbs Quotes
136 Suburbs quotes by 125 unique authors
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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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Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of…
— Havelock Ellis
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While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver…
— Sam Sifton
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Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
— Melissa Bean
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The suburbs dream of violence.
— J. G. Ballard
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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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There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley,…
— Jan Morris
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
— Dorothy Parker
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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
— Anna Sui
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I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me…
— Liz Phair
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As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get…
— Pamela Stephenson
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with…
— Joel Kinnaman
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I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.
— Dave Foley
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California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car…
— Fareed Zakaria
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Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's…
— J. G. Ballard
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