Top 298 Suburban Quotes & Sayings

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

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

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.

There are so many people in Memphis who have real reasons to be angsty, but I was just a suburban white kid with all this misplaced rage.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino.

The suburban dad is the worst dressed subset in America, which is especially disheartening when you consider the country club's many great style icons.

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

I loved growing up in Portland because I'm not from L.A. or New York or Chicago or some cool city... It was a very regular suburban life.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I try to be careful how much I sing about the suburban house or whatever.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

I remember growing up in suburban New Jersey, and all the computer stores were like, 'Motherboard Mayhem' and all these cheesy names.

There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban pattern. It's finished. We will, however, desperately need to grow more of our food closer to home, and so the preservation of agricultural hinterlands is of great importance. But don't expect the fiesta of suburban construction to continue more than a few more years.

A suburban mall turned vertical.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I'm a gangsta rap suburban father!

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

I'm a suburban mom. I grew up in Oakland County, Michigan.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.