Quotes for All
Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they’re actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they’re in a remote location. Gail Collins
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs – and I’m not the first person to say this, it’s been said over and over again in literature – there’s a sense of normalcy. Eric Bogosian
And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. Elton John
It’s really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don’t have a downtown, you really don’t have anything. It’s hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. Ed McMahon
I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that … Read more
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Francis Quarles
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Francis Quarles
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the … Read more
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn’t have any idea what I was supposed to wear. Dylan Walsh
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. Dorothy Parker