(47 quotes found)
“If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles”
Cedric Belfrage
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium”
Cyril Connolly
“If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, Phileas Fogg would still be in the air, the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have had time to tell anyone his story.”
Michael Winerip
“In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,Is best to lodge.”
William Shakespeare
“Arab suburbs will become ghettos and we were warned that there's no guarantee we could visit this place again after the wall is completed.”
Chris Towne
“I want the library to broaden its perspective. We don't need in this community any more flight into the suburbs.”
Charlotte Sobel
“Hockey in the 'Hood ? I like that one. We're the East Side of St. Paul, not the suburbs. You're coming to play in our 'hood. It's just something to get us going out there.”
Brian Galloway
“Not even the suburbs want to be the suburbs anymore.”
David Ginsburg
“A lot of suburbs have great facilities, a lot of money that is put into (the private school athletic programs), ... Integration is a big thing that hurt us because we (at Carver) always had a lot of good athletes and after integration they were going somewhere else.”
Dan Lewis
