Best Suburbs Words
136 Suburbs quotes by 125 unique authors
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Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city…
— Richard Yates
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[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by…
— Jane Jacobs
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I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
— Unknown Author
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In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping…
— Bjarke Ingels
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When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the…
— Alex Steffen
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In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and…
— Janine di Giovanni
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The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep…
— Josh Hamilton
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Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match…
— Jon Katz
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I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart…
— Tom Odell
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I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar…
— Cass McCombs
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the…
— Mike Nesbitt
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If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting…
— Noam Chomsky
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I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both…
— Alan G. Poindexter
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Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.
— Thomas E. Mann
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I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of…
— Robert Powell
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The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties…
— Paul Downs Colaizzo
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Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled…
— Chris Gabrieli
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Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before…
— Chris Webber
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a…
— Harlan Coben
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I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment,…
— Stephen Hunter
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The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
— Cheryl Hines
Who Wrote These Suburbs Quotes
125 authors contributed a total of 136 Suburbs Quotes, led by these top contributors: