Top 130 Suburb Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
The suburb was the major element of Australian society.
I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.
When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.
I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way.
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'
When I was growing up, I always felt a bit like I didn't quite fit in, a feeling that perhaps still lingers in the background to this very day. I was the small brown girl in the big white suburb.
We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in the area; it's middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
You know, the biggest indicator of where you live is your income. If you live in this suburb you make this much money, and if you live in that suburb, you make that much money, and if you don't have any money you live where you're allowed to live.
By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.
I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.
Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.
Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died. I was fourteen at the time.
I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
I was actually born in Sacramento, in Rocklin, which is a suburb of Sacramento. I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.
To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.
I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa in Israel. As far back as I remember, I was interested in big questions. Who are we? What are we doing here? But the chances to discuss philosophy were quite thin on the ground.
Life was difficult for my family, as we didn't know where to go after leaving Kashmir. We settled down in Mumbai, in a suburb called Mira Road.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
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.
I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.
I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.
I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that.
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
