Suburbs Quotes - Page 2

• The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

  Rem Koolhaas

  New York, Sex, Squares

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• Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dog, Morning, Mean

  "J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85". Interview with Thomas Frick, www.theparisreview.org. 1984.

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• I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.

  Chris Parnell

  Thinking, Southern, Baptists

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 21, 2003.

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

  Aaron Rose

  Believe, Ghetto, Dangerous

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• 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.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Years, December

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• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Change, Taken, Character

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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

  Pete Munro

  Pride, Garden, Backyards

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• 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, Weekend, Littles

  "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

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• We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Wall, Capacity To Love, Cities

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.

  Russell Crowe

  Dream, Growing Up, Childhood

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• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Wife, House, Feminist

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

  Tina Fey

  Girl, White, Diversity

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  Rachael Harris

  Ohio, Feelings, Towns

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

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• I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

  Nina Bawden

  Country, Mother, War

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

  Philip Guedalla

  Oxford, Paris, Streets

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Home, Names, Paradise

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

  John D. Barrow

  Density, Strings, Quarks

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• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

  Religious, Jesus, Careers

  Impressions and Comments 5 January (1922)

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• While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.

  Sam Sifton

  Sports, Winter, Games

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• Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Cities, Los Angeles, Seven

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• 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.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Divorce, Plies

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wwe, Hawaii, States

  "World Wrestling Federation: Monday Night Raw". July 11, 1993.

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• The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Eye

  "Reality on the Rocks" ("Beyond Our Ken", 1995), (1995– ).

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• I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

  Peter Jurasik

  New York, Queens, Cities

  "An Interview With Peter Jurasik" by Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Names, House

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