Quotes about Suburbs

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. Votes: 3

Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there Votes: 3

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret. Votes: 3

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. Votes: 2

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. Votes: 2

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. Votes: 2

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Votes: 2

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family. Votes: 2

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation. Votes: 2

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. Votes: 2

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise. Votes: 2

Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other. Votes: 2

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. Votes: 2

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 happy life for themselves. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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.' Votes: 2

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 you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete! Votes: 2

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 was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than 拢40. Votes: 2

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not. Votes: 2

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. Votes: 2

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. Votes: 2

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way. Votes: 2

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. Votes: 2

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves. Votes: 2

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm. Votes: 2

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. Votes: 2

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.' Votes: 2

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds. Votes: 2

The suburbs dream of violence. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Votes: 0

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs. Votes: 0

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. Votes: 0

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis. Votes: 0

Links have become the suburbs of the real world. Votes: 0

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me. Votes: 0

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. Votes: 0

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs. Votes: 0

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know. Votes: 0

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry. Votes: 0

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York. Votes: 0

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad. Votes: 0

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs. Votes: 0

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas. Votes: 0

I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities. Votes: 0

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall. Votes: 0

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs. Votes: 0

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside. Votes: 0

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Votes: 0

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. Votes: 0

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity. Votes: 0

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment. Votes: 0

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. Votes: 0

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell? Votes: 0

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Votes: 0

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs. Votes: 0

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs. Votes: 0

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor. Votes: 0

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White. Votes: 0

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it. Votes: 0

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. Votes: 0

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride... Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino. Votes: 0

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends. Votes: 0

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated Votes: 0

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends Votes: 0

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs. Votes: 0

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. Votes: 0

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London. Votes: 0

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. Votes: 0

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't like the midnight closing on weekends. It's one thing to tell people they have to drive to Jiffy Lube Live in the outer suburbs. Votes: 0

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like. Votes: 0

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to. Votes: 0

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 been built. Votes: 0

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 never seen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 of death. Votes: 0

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it. Votes: 0

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 as a resource for anything. Votes: 0

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on. Votes: 0

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older. Votes: 0

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 will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer. Votes: 0

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 city centre, you might never heard of me. Votes: 0

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 . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto. Votes: 0

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right. Votes: 0