Suburbs Quotes
136 Suburbs quotes by 125 unique authors
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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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Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those…
— Heather McHugh
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Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear…
— John Betjeman
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.
— John Green
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I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people…
— Jane Levy
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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.
— Tom Perrotta
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG…
— Zack Snyder
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Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done…
— Sebastian Thrun
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What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs…
— Bob Taft
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The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't…
— Susan Faludi
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The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as…
— Stephen Hawking
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