#suburban

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

#attention #bad #did #experience #grabbing

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#straightforward #suburban #upbringing #very #working

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#buy #conscience #global #global warming #going

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. ↗

— David Byrne

#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban

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

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#bowels #city #had #hadn #just

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

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew

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

— Peter De Vries

#car #children #deliver #ever after #forever