Suburbs Quotes

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore White

Men, Best, Reality

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.
Spencer Bachus

Happy, Free, State

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.
Tom Perrotta

Life, Happened, Lived

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.
Pamela Stephenson

School, Place, Coming

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.
Stephen Collins

Born, York, Des

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
Eric Bogosian

Person, Thinking, Problem

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

Hate, Live, Until

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

School, Public, Weekends

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

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 a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
Joel Kinnaman

Money, School, Father

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 where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
Bob Taft

Life, Family, Small

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.'
Linwood Barclay

Age, Parents, Book

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.
Susan Faludi

Women, Everybody, Wonder

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!
Chris Webber

Time, God, Judge

I grew up in the suburbs.
Rosemarie DeWitt

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

Boy, Western, Sydney

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.
Megan Abbott

Food, Two, Same

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.
Jane Levy

Laugh, Themselves, Along

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