Suburban Quotes

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

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

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.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

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

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.

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

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

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

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

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

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

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

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

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

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

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

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

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