92 Suburban Quotes for You to Enjoy

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience. Manolo Blahnik

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I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating. Marina and the Diamonds

Bit Easier Kitten Like Look Occasionally Because Around Lots Very Move Influences Suburban Heels Really Americana

My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people. Marley Dias

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

Single Neighbourhood Never Almost Disappointing Robbery Suburban Barely

I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept. Matt Passmore

You Say Concept Up Wanted Grew Suburban Ridiculous Actor

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls. Michael Leunig

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me. Michelle Grabner

Me Learning Experience Thrive Power Farm Design Seeing Someone Structures Institutions Because Around Learning Experience Am Context Up Close Suburban Poor Organized Workings Who Whole Wasted Inner Museum

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down. Mike White

You Remember College Down Kids Kind Had Knew New Like Know Look Pasadena Were References Existence Cultured Up Very York New York So-Called Grew Suburban Then Much Who Connecticut University

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. Nina Bawden

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. Noam Chomsky

Construction Engineering Society Changed Project Complex System Physical Clearly Massive Very America Quite Suburban Elaborate Social Really Social Engineering

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

Girl White He Knows Precisely Going Suburban Jay-Z Who

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. Peter Bergen

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

Mother Car Once Deliver Forever Role Children After Suburban

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children. Rachel Cusk

Love Time You Animal Lonely Long Parents Reading Lost Lasts Spend Furry Find Parent Small Could Takes Aloud Quick Friends Precisely Tuesday Tuesday Night Children Story Suburban Average Your Watch Night

I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it. Rainn Wilson

Good Different Kinds Other Drama Geek Kinds Pretty Pretty Good Guy Never Weird Became Fit Up Different Suburban Then Really Growing Growing Up Found Among Seattle

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood. Richard Corliss

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. Rob Sheffield

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It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements. Robin Weigert

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

Mom Oakland County Up Michigan Grew Suburban

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