Suburbs Quotes - Page 6

• I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, World, Want

  "Strange fiction". Interview With James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.

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• My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mother, Art, Chicago

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• 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.'

  Julian Casablancas

  Moving, Kids, Different

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. 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. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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• We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

  Harlan Coben

  New York, Jersey, New Jersey

  "Neighbourhood watcher" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2007.

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• 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.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, People

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• When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

  Diablo Cody

  School, Kids, Catholic

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Class, Delirium Tremens, Apathy

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

  Marion Cotillard

  Paris, Born, Raised

  Interview with Nicole Kidman, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Yearbook, Church

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• I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

  Liz Phair

  Thinking, Self, Trying

  "Return to Guyville". Interview with Carlene Bauer, www.elle.com. June 10, 2008.

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• As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Cities, Space, People

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on

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• In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

  Denise Levertov

  Cities, Growth, Arms

  Denise Levertov, Jewel Spears Brooker (1998). “Conversations with Denise Levertov”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Moon

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Simple, Land, Cities

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• Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Country, Cities, Tolerable

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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• 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

  Movement, Wonder, Neighborhood

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

  John Green

  Two, Guy, Chicago

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• In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Visions Of The Future, Community, Citizens

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2010). “The Americans: The Democratic Experience”, p.427, Vintage

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• Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Class, America, Alive

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• 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.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Topography, Fear Of Death

  Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.

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• The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

  David Riesman

  Car, Bankers, Week

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.244, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Ed McMahon

  Community, Downtown, Kind

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• 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, Watches, Going Out

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