#suburb

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#death #england #london #suburbia #death

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

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#especially #identity #identity theft #nation #suburbs

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

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#continue #distant #flight #hasten #longer

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#breeding #class #crime #delirium #grounds

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#changing #contempt #eventually #expanding #find

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#after #developer #names #out #streets

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret. ↗

— James Denton

#anything #because #city #described #each

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally