41 Suburb Quotes for You to Enjoy

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan

Great Will Become Nation Danger One Nation Collection City Seeking Faces Individual Instead Private Cease America Wants Suburb Interest Against Region Groups Each Satisfy

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. J. G. Ballard

Future Soul Fear Word Nothing Sum Everything Would One Word Boring About Vast Exciting New Up Going Just Happen Happened Suburb Again Conforming Interesting Ever

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. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

People Comrades Rich White Live Way Would Betray Never Alongside Where Want Grand Suburb Former Roots Choose Many Villa

I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio. Alice Ripley

Oakland Born Up Ohio Grew Suburb

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. Baz Luhrmann

Morning You People Personality Walk Brilliant Ocean Melting Melting Pot Vital Minutes Give Pot Eclectic General Vast Within Mix Italian Blue Suburb Suburban Asian Then Sydney

I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that. Bill Skarsgard

Myself See Stuff Like House Domesticated Very Person Suburb

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

You Experience Conservative Think Liberal Section Memphis Pretty About More Area Until Fairly Sure Parts Up Southern Southern Baptist Get Moved Grew Baptist Which Suburb Then Certain

I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it! Cory Michael Smith

Day Mom Doctor Halloween Mouth Down Our Bit Gum Brother Could Hospitals Put Columbus Piece She Sorting Metal Were Up Offered Offices Candy Ohio Grew After Suburb Asked Her Early

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist. Daniel Ek

Music Time Me Legal Thinking Back Way About Someone Could How Up Stockholm Afford Get Same Artist Same Time Suburb While Really Working-Class Growing Growing Up

When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage. Danielle Panabaker

Mom Family Parents Sister Other Other Kids Local Backstage Kids Out Atlanta Had Involved Makeup Got Were Lot Georgia Did Hanging Being Wanted Suburb Us Fun Whole Lived Play Socialized

Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown. Darin Strauss

Long Half Took Everyone Though Ours City Shadow Totally Seemed Only Long Island Casts Could Onto Hour Sort Island Disconnected Been Surprisingly Traffic Up Get Any Where Manhattan Grew Anywhere Suburb Us Thin

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood. Daryl Hall

Black Become Neighborhood Since Town Industrial Integrated Up Very Grew Place Which Suburb Agricultural Basically Philadelphia

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. David Gross

Family Class Age Ours Read Were Encouraged Intellectual Very Very Early Age Childhood Middle Middle Class Suburb Washington VA Early Early Age

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing. Debra Granik

Extremely Come Call Suburb Land Nowhere

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston. Douglas Wood

Born Chicago Up Grew Suburb

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle. Eduardo Paes

Nature Heart Problems Face Example Poverty Beauty Distribution Rio Kinds Area Developing For Example Does Concrete Traffic Metropolis Jungle Green Any Vibrant Pollution Energetic Place Suburb Uniform Congestion Full

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. Howard Jacobson

Work Simple Rest Build Down Design Hey Logic London Rise More Small Indistinguishable Studios Another Always Leave Close Offices Shops Suburb Apartments Production Fashionable Watch Sympathetic

I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind. Jacky Ido

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it. Jerry Saltz

Art Me Mother Word Our Once Month Hated Never Institute Came Chicago Up Northern Where Suburb Dragged

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