#suburb

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

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

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

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#children #compound #died #end #far

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#alaska #any #even #everything #grew

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#class family #family #i #i was born #paris

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#family #father #golf #modern #particularly

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

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. ↗

— Anna Sui

#grew #i #suburbs #up