Quotes About Suburbia

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

They both went to opposite sides of the bed, snapped on their bedside lamps and pulled back the cover in a smooth, practiced, synchronized move that proved, depending on Madeline's mood, that they either had the perfect marriage or that they were stuck in a middle-class suburban rut and they needed to sell the house and go traveling around India.

third child in that suburban dream of his, now at the front

Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.

They spoke in low, intense voices, as if their conversation involved international espionage, which was incongruous in this small suburban café on a pleasant summery Saturday morning, with freshly baked banana and pear bread scenting the air and soft rock drifting languidly from the stereo to the accompaniment of the espresso machine's industrious hiss and grind.

It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody, and all films like that will forever be measured against 'Blue Velvet.'

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

husband, Dave, my daughter, and I had moved out of Cen- ter City and into a house in Haverford that I refused to call a McMansion, even though that's exactly what it was, but I loved Ellie's pediatrician so much that 1'd never even tried to find a suburban replacement.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.

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.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.