92 Suburban Quotes for You to Enjoy

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become. J. Courtney Sullivan

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I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background. James Wan

Background Adjusted Come Very Suburban Straight

The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom. Jane Green

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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. Jane Smiley

Life Religion Survival Seen Doctors Way City Only Idea Talking Self-Knowledge Traditional Cure Cured Same Psychoanalysis Suburban Conformist Urban Agony Novel Found Nowhere

I've stood in rooms in urban, rural, and suburban parts of my state and asked a room of middle class voters to raise their hands if the college debt of someone in their family is affecting their financial situation. Without exception, at least three quarters of the room will raise their hand. Jason Kander

Family Class Financial Will College Three Situation State Rural Three-Quarters Someone Exception Voters Parts Without Least Quarters Affecting Hand Debt Hands Stood Middle Middle Class Suburban Urban Room Rooms Asked Raise

Jim Udinski has been coaching in the league for the past fourteen years, and his Division II team, the Lenape Valley Indians from suburban Philadelphia, has already made history - twice. Jeanne Marie Laskas

History Made Past Jim Valley Has-Been Indians Division League Been His Years Suburban Coaching Team Twice Fourteen Philadelphia

I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.' Jen Sincero

Family College Weather Seen Before Out Something Colorado Never Contact New Come Dude Arrived Been West Up Mountain Snow York New York Experienced Grew Suburban Much Traveling

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. Jesse Eisenberg

Religion Secular Only Observed Like Household Mitzvah Up Very Times Where Grew Bar Bar Mitzvah Suburban Specific Funeral Jewish

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

Words Gone Other New Bourgeois York New York In Other Words Suburban Us

After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways. Joe Gebbia

My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites. John C. Mather

Family Wise Fight Courage Mother Father Young Reputation Heroic Our Never He Know Well Him Gentle Always Got Chicago Very Intelligent Died Suburban Against Figure

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

Style Embarrassing Allen Prose Sort Woody Woody Allen Suburban Presbyterian Early

I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one. John Waters

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. Jonathan Kozol

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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. Jonathan Kozol

Book Writing School Job First Reading White Would Tried About Write Ads First Grade Read Learned Were Grade Taught Children Want Anyone Happen Suburban Who Applications Imagine

What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump. Josh Tillman

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

Women Slow New New Jersey Coming Movement Suburban Jersey

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff. Julia Davis

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When Dad stopped playing in a rock band and was done chasing that dream, he devoted himself to his family. I would love to do the same thing - just without driving a 1991 Suburban and wearing sweatpants, a fanny pack, and six-year-old Pumas. Julian Edelman

Love Family Chasing Band Same Thing Dream Would Wearing Driving He Devoted Himself Without Rock Rock Band His Same Done Just Stopped Pack Suburban Fanny Dad Thing Playing

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. Karen Allen

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

School Tea Say Angst Cup American Just Suburban

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

Father Gangsta Typical Rap Am Suburban Dad

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me. Lindsay Duncan

Me Experience Parents Drama Kid Idea Beyond Know Until Schools Were Friend Scottish Suburban Acting Acting Career Even Career

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