Suburban Quotes

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. (Bertrand Russell)

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Graham Greene

The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment.

Betty Friedan

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

Markus Zusak

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

Stewart O'Nan

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Tom Perrotta

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

Tom Perrotta

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Richard M. Daley

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. (Baz Luhrmann)

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

Bryan Brown

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

Dannel Malloy

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Helmut Jahn

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Helmut Jahn

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

Ioan Gruffudd

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Jesse Eisenberg

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

Karen Allen

Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

Kathryn Joosten

Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. (Michael Ian Black)

Maybe there are a group of gay banditos... who, every night climb into a van and go from village to dell, from community to community. They wander, and as the sun is coming down, just setting over a suburban village, the gays drive in. And there in a cul-de-sac, there in the light of a house, you can see a young American family, sitting down for their evening meal. And those gays... put on their masks and their festive colored robes, and sneak slowly into the house... and begin to FUCK EACH OTHER IN THE ASS! AND ANOTHER AMERICAN FAMILY IS DESTROYED!

Lewis Black

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Marshall McLuhan

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

Tom Hardy

...surely that sneered-at suburban life was more stable than this shadow life...in a country where no involvement was possible...better than the sordid dalliance that soothed me after work?

Anthony Burgess

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