Suburbs Quotes

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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.

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 the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

[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 definition, full of strangers.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

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 to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

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 as our memory does.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

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 different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

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 the very slow washing of dishes.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.

It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .