#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

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

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

#became #different #different kinds #drama #fit

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

— John Hughes

#early #embarrassing #presbyterian #prose #sort

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#children #compound #died #end #far

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#anyway #areas #collar #counties #fight

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#extravagant #four #large #living #modestly

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#i #made #mistake #prejudice #stupid

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them! ↗

— Van Jones

#believe #black #child #columbine #done

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#family #father #golf #modern #particularly