#suburb

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

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia. ↗

— Marc Cherry

#excited #i #new #something #suburbia

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. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#end #ghosts #having #i #in the end

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#become #car #man #protective #shell

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#around #build #community #downtown #hard

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period. ↗

— John Pople

#brought #children #churchill #each #east

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#arid #coming #day #every #every day