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Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs. ↗

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#bowels #city #had #hadn #just

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

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#angst #cup #just #say #school

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#become #car #man #protective #shell

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

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#another #beard #bin #channels #dad

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment. ↗

— Karen Allen

#birds #bouncing #environment #hear #i

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#buy #conscience #global #global warming #going