#suburb

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#basically #cultural #death #grew #i

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #court #ghetto #guided #heart

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall. ↗

— Dave Foley

#grew #i #mall #strip #suburbs

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#i #state #suburb #thought

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don't forget, I'm a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#community #forget #getting #go #huge

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. ↗

— Ed Koch

#life #lived #nothing #sterile #suburbs

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

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

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

— Anthony Trollope

#misery #picturesque #pitiable #poverty #rural

Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #suburban #urban #funny