Suburbs Quotes - Page 7

• The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

  Robin Boyd

  Elements, Architecture, Australian

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• 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

  Father, School, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Dave Foley

  Toronto, Grew Up, Malls

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

  Heather McHugh

  Train Of Thought, Track, Trying

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• My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Jobs, Dad, Names

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

  Robert Smithson

  New York, Artist, Cities

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Lisa Loeb

  Thinking, Alaska, Rooms

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• 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.

  Neill Blomkamp

  House, Tree, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

  Jon Stewart

  Baseball, Grandmother, Boys

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• 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.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Doors, People, Age

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Ghetto, Reality, Men

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

  Alex Steffen

  Media, Opposites, Long

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

  Ed Koch

  New York, People, Wish

  Ed Koch, Christy Heady (2007). “Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

  P. D. James

  Morning, Years, Two

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.12, Vintage

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• 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.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

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• We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  New York, Moving, Security Guards

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That`s really a hard pill to swallow, that the whole way that I have created my life is wrong, you`re saying, that I shouldn`t have this house in the suburb, I shouldn`t be driving this car.

  Bob Inglis

  Thinking, Car, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

  Tom Morello

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

  Tom Morello

  Growing Up, Chicago, Conservative

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.

  Allison Joseph

  Cities, Worry, Seductive

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Honesty, Dirty

  "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth". Comic book by Grant Morrison, 1989.

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• I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for territory. Three blocks away are mansions and million-dollar houses. Right here, in the real world, the street war rages on. The people in the million-dollar houses don't even realize a battle is about to begin less than a half mile from their backyards.

  Simone Elkeles

  Block, Real, War

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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