Top 338 Suburbs Quotes & Sayings

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.

Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

I grew up in the suburbs.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

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

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

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

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

I have an affinity with Algeria, because I grew up with plenty of Algerian friends in the suburbs of Paris.

I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the cultural imagination like there is in Dallas or San Francisco or New York City. You have a little more freedom as a novelist this way. The suburbs become a generic idea, and the place doesn't intrude into the narrative.

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.

Football is open to anyone, especially somebody like me who grew up in the Paris suburbs.

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening.

Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

The suburbs dream of violence.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

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

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

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

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

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

We lived in a slum area in the suburbs of Mumbai.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

We moved around a ton when I was a kid. I think we lived in 9 different houses before I was 15 - we moved from the city back to the suburbs; different suburbs, different houses, all over the place.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.

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.

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.