Quotes About Community

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal laws, federal rules or, clearly, by a president.

Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks had never done a show on television, yet they were able to draw a show with 11,000 people to suburban Chicago. Just based on word of mouth and through the love of wrestling they spread.

My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.

Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.

If you from Philly, you ain't a Villanova guy. Villanova is the suburbs. That's all you know about Villanova.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

We lived in a slum area in the suburbs of Mumbai.

When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.

Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

I grew up in Paris. Well, in the suburbs of Paris.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.