Suburban Quotations

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!

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.

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

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.

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

We're saying, 'Don't create a suburban office park just a mile away,'

We decided the suburban life wasn't for us. So we moved out here.

What we came to realize is the best way to protect the Bay is to keep a farmer farming. We'd much rather have a farm operating than having a suburban development go in.

Learning about bears and being aware of their habits is a responsibility that comes with living in rural and suburban Pennsylvania or recreating in the outdoors.

One of the things that impressed me was that blend of the traditional Southern revival with the cultural sensibilities of a middle-class suburban congregation.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

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

I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

I believe the market will see close to one million square feet of spec suburban office space under construction by year-end 2006 as tenant demand continues to increase.

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.

If it's competition, there's a lot more to it than consolidation. There needs to be an improved feeder system and increased pay for coaches if we are to compete with (Marion) County and suburban schools.

He said you could hardly recognize her. It was over 100 degrees outside. She was found next to the water hydrant, so they think she was trying to cool off. She had been driving a Gator (a four-wheeled, off-road vehicle), and she had pulled it up next to the Suburban at an angle. Her hands were clammy, and you could see where she had held on to the Gator and then the Suburban, and then where her hands slid down.

I think the prime minister didn't understand anything about what is going on. He wants to divide students by explaining generally that students today are preventing suburban youths from finding a job.

I think sometimes basketball teams north of the Trinity River are sold short. It speaks well of both teams. It speaks well of northern suburban basketball.

It is imprudent to assume that these measures will be able to alter traditional, suburban transportation.

I will run myself out of business in Southern California if I continue to focus solely on single-family, detached suburban homes.

Jayson has turned his life around. He defines the character we were trying to get for our team. When we needed a hit of personality -- when we were too nondescript, a suburban team without urban sizzle -- Jayson jumped in and created a persona for us.

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.

Our church was the big, huge suburban church that thought they could get things done by only using money.

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

Our long-term business arrangement with Temple-Inland has allowed us to bring extraordinary residential offerings to rapidly expanding suburban communities of Atlanta over the past few years, and this purchase will allow for even greater development and sales opportunities in the future.

People have told us that no true full-service hotels have been built in suburban cities in years, maybe decades,

My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories of those suburban grounds, and everything was so undiluted. The players weren't censored, and for me it was a wonderful period of my life when everything was simple and pure. For me, that resonated with rugby league.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

Look at our population here. People come from all over the country: urban areas, rural areas, suburban areas. We also have international students here. If you look at the national statistics, and you look at correlation and probability, that means that possibly one in 200 students here could be HIV positive.

I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

It doesn't matter if they are black or white, whether they come from urban or suburban neighborhoods. When they basically get what they want and there are less rules that apply to them, the potential for abusive situations is increased.

The analysis of the research showed that what distinguishes Loudoun County from competitors is the county's veritable treasure trove of diverse assets including one of the largest international airports in the world, one of country's most educated workforces, thriving rural businesses, entrepreneurialism, and a beautiful community of rural landscapes, historic towns, and well-planned suburban developments.

The antitrust people never seemed to catch on that suburban monopolies act in the way that urban monopolies do.

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.

When it comes to educating our children, bigger is not better. I don't think we need an Omaha takeover of the suburban school districts.

Today's generation of workers are focused on family and social activities. In suburban communities, it's not uncommon to spend 1-1/2 hours each way commuting to work. That's destroying the quality of life.

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''

The definitions related to open space are weak in that they do not distinguish between lands set aside for resource-conservation purposes versus lands set aside for recreational purposes; nor do the definitions recognize necessary distinctions between urban, suburban and rural lands.

Wal-Mart has become aware of how they are perceived and that they don't want to be perceived as down market in part because it makes it difficult to penetrate certain urban and suburban markets. I think they want to get that middle-class customer to spend money with them.

The really exciting part is that it's going to be a mixed use development - the first in Allen. That's pretty exciting for a suburban community.

When Republicans represent moderate districts, they become less conservative just as Democrats representing conservative districts become less liberal. The least conservative Republican members Mike Fitzpatrick, Jim Gerlach and Curt Weldon all represent suburban Philadelphia districts, where the voters tend to be more moderate.

We also like that it's the first Club Monaco in the Boston market, so it's not something that you'll see in suburban malls.

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

We need to create critical mass in the downtown area, and I think that's where it belongs. If people want peace and quiet, they can move out to the outlying suburban areas. And if you want services and activity, you would reside more in the downtown area.

We are excited to become a Comstock Homebuilding Company. The financial strength, diverse range of product capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit of the Comstock organization will help Parker Chandler Homes execute on our vision of becoming a leading urban and suburban homebuilder in the Atlanta market and in other strong markets in the southeast.

The grants will enhance open space and environmental resources and create urban and suburban corridors for more hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities, ... Autumn is a beautiful time of year to get out and experience nature at its best.

You are probably talking a $10,000 per vehicle profit on a full-size Chevy Tahoe, $15,000 on the larger Chevy Suburban and $25,000 on the luxury Cadillac Escalade SUV. That's real money and a real contributor to GM losing money in the quarter.

We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.

To allow someone to come through and just serve affluent suburban areas, not the rural communities, not the poor communities, gives the new provider a tremendous economic advantage.

The win to me was more important than the City championship because it made a statement saying that we can beat suburban teams. A lot of people didn't expect it, so the game spoke louder than a lot of our championship games did.

The way it's designed, it's compatible for most suburban office users.

These chains are moving into more suburban areas, and their formats are cleaner and brighter. Dollar stores also have a particularly strong appeal to low-income families.

The suburban schools have traditionally done better than the city schools, and I believe that's due to economics, plus, in the city schools we water each other down. We're fragmented, but in the suburbs you have one high school that everybody goes to.

The suburban commute has become ridiculous. A new generation of working people is focused on adding to their quality of life. They want more time for family and social activities. That long commute has caused the deterioration of their quality of life.

The threat of disintegration and collapse in this family and to a certain extent the heroic struggle of the central character in overcoming the problems that beset her is real. It's real, you know? It's not the stuff of losers, it's the stuff of ordinary families, ordinary suburban families. Not the working class poor, not the silly rich, it's the stuff of every single family I know. There is a family member, there is a beloved friend who is beset by the life and death struggle to do with drug addiction and getting free of it.

The SouthWest Suburban Conference is 10-deep. We have to be ready. There will be a lot of state medals out of the conference. It's going to be very competitive Saturday.

Pubs aren't health clubs. To me, we're creating a suburban dreariness that would drive me mad.

Our defense has to be good to compete in the West Suburban Silver. We have the best four defensive linemen in the Silver.

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

Suburban users as well as city users must share in the cost of the plan, so they also must share in the savings of the plan.

Suburban is the industry benchmark when it comes to capability and the 2007 model affirms the reputation established in 1935, when the first Suburban was introduced.

suburban guys coming into our community trying to raise up the concerns of people when this administration is going to the wall on this issue of disabled riders.

Suburban America has no idea about this crisis. But we are all going to pay for it in the end.

South Suburban is very athletic and that athleticism gave us difficulty early. They made some shots that teams don't normally make, but we were still able to come out on top.

Do you really think, had this been a rich, lily-white suburban area, instead of one mostly poor and black, that got hit, the administration would have waited five days to get food or water to those people? When the hurricane hit in Florida, Bush made sure those people got those supplies the next day.

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.

You're still half a child, but you're getting in these adult situations with a sense of wonder and a sense of stupidity as well. I see it as a real universal suburban record.

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.

They have an enormous challenge, faced by every Democratic candidate, of mobilizing voters in urban and suburban communities, mobilizing women and people of color. Our base is more complex than the Republican base, and Jon has to be out there. I think they were late, but they are beginning to tackle the challenge.

They are coming into suburban areas as we build further out into wildlife habitat. We're not going to eradicate feral hogs. But we can develop strategies to reduce their damages.

This phenomenon cuts across all demographics. You'll find it in families both rich and poor; black, white, Asian and Hispanic; urban, suburban and rural. According to the Census Bureau, fully one-third of young men ages 22 to 34 are still living at home with their parents ? a roughly 100 percent increase in the past 20 years. No such change has occurred with regard to young women. Why?

There will be a lot of pressure without a lot of thought to get something done, ... If they build and build, or turn over big chunks of land to suburban (style) developers, the result will be a mess.

There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.

This looks like a really good suburban project dropped into an urban setting.

It's a symptom of the new divide in housing costs between the expensive, congested, urbanized states such as California and New York and newly sprawling suburban states on both coasts. This whole half of the decade, housing has been an issue. ... The question is: Will it continue?

It's nothing more than a scam that takes advantage of two interests: urban mayors who need money and suburban mayors who want to keep the poor out of their town.

For a suburban man aged 30 to 40, hell is going clothing shopping on a Saturday afternoon. There are about 5,000 other things they would put on the list ahead of clothes shopping.

It's obvious the film has strong staying power in urban and suburban areas.

The Norris is delighted to present the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra and Singers. This concert not only showcases one of the finest classical ensembles in the Chicago area, but it offers the local community a perfect way to observe the historic milestone of Mozart's 250th birthday.

It's much more intensive. It takes longer to plan and longer to get approval. The kind of building is very different from what most suburban builders do.

It's much more about communication and consent in urban and suburban areas than it is in other, more rural places. You have to rely much more on private landowners to get access to the places where the deer are and to get their permission to do certain things.

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.

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.