Suburban Quotes

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them! - Van Jones

You're still half a child, but you're getting in these adult situations with a sense of wonder and a sense of stupidity as well. I see it as a real universal suburban record. - Craig Finn

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

You are probably talking a $10,000 per vehicle profit on a full-size Chevy Tahoe, $15,000 on the larger Chevy Suburban and $25,000 on the luxury Cadillac Escalade SUV. That's real money and a real contributor to GM losing money in the quarter. - George Peterson

White suburban voters who voted for George Bush are disaffected now. Would I rather be talking about immigration reform with these voters or the war? Immigration reform or gasoline prices? Sometimes, in order to avoid or avert the tidal wave, you have to do things that short-term make a little more sense than they do in the long term. - Tony Fabrizio

When the Lee administration decided to create all one-way streets, they weren't necessarily thinking about the fact that they were serving people who lived in the suburbs and were trying to get out of the city, not into it... The mayor was forced to accept the fact of suburbanization, but he didn't think about the ramifications. - Frances Clark

When Republicans represent moderate districts, they become less conservative just as Democrats representing conservative districts become less liberal. The least conservative Republican members Mike Fitzpatrick, Jim Gerlach and Curt Weldon all represent suburban Philadelphia districts, where the voters tend to be more moderate. - Terry Madonna

When it comes to educating our children, bigger is not better. I don't think we need an Omaha takeover of the suburban school districts. - Dave Heineman

What we came to realize is the best way to protect the Bay is to keep a farmer farming. We'd much rather have a farm operating than having a suburban development go in. - Kim Coble