"It's really kind of hard to be a……" — Ed McMahon
"It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions."
Related Quotes
- Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would… — Jane Jacobs
- Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to… — Sloane Crosley
- One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has… — Edward Abbey
- But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city.… — Genevieve Gorder
- Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin
- I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place,… — Megan Abbott
- If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people,… — Eric Bogosian
- In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are… — Janine di Giovanni
- Must you play into the stereotypes? Turn that mess down. This is the suburbs. I'm in that damn neighborhood watch! — Cedric The Entertainer
- There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that… — Conor Oberst
14 Quotes by Ed McMahon
Ed McMahon has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
- I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be…
- All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
- Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
- Agriculture is the new golf
- There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton…
- There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great…
- If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.
- Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to…
- Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation,…
- Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
- You can grow without destroying the things that you love.