Quotes of Suburban - somelinesforyou

“ All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ”

- Bible

“ Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. ”

- Fred Allen

“ What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great. ”

- James Connolly

“ Even cities have their graves! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations.... The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Paris is the cafT of Europe. ”

- Ferdinando Galiani

“ Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Far from gay cities, and the way of men. ”

- Homer

“ My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? ”

- Henry Youngman

“ We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead! ”

- Lee Ryan

“ So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities. ”

- Bible

“ And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ”

- Bible

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

- Bertrand Russell

“ God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-semitism. ”

- Ezra

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

- Marshall McLuhan

“ I had always imagined that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. ”

- Philip Guedalla

“ Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. ”

- Sarah Vowell

“ In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD. ”

- Bible

“ Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. ”

- John Bright

“ It was like taking it all full circle for me, because that's, you know, in Salford, which is, you know, a suburb of Manchester, is where I learned the magic of photography from my father. And so taking the show all the way to Manchester was full circle for me. ”

- Graham Nash

“ Those who marry God can become domesticated too — it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word "Love" means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and "Ave Maria " like "dearest" is a phrase to open a letter… ”

- Graham Greene

“ The suburban housewife — she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife — freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment. ”

- Betty Friedan

“ The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone… ”

- Betty Friedan
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