Quotes / Suburbia

Rodney: Did you ever hear of Ozone Heights?
Venus: No, what are they?
Rodney: It's a great big new real estate development over on Staten Island. Every bungalow's the same. They got an electric incinerator and a radio that looks like a fireplace—
Venus: And a fireplace that looks like a radio?
Rodney: Yes. And when you sign the lease, you get a year's subscription to the Reader's Digest! And I almost forgot the most important thing of all—a dandy big yard for the kiddies when they start to come along.

— One Touch of Venus

Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,

Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes all the same.

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.

— Malvina Reynolds

"I often hear people talk about how to deal with the problem of the suburbs — the problem being that they're ecologically unsustainable and that they're intrinsically soul-destroying."

— Adam Cadre, reviewing A Pattern Language

"Ah, the suburbs. Fostering the illusion of success since 1950."

— Daffy Duck, The Looney Tunes Show, "Newspaper Thief"

We're rocking the suburbs

Around the block just one more time

We're rocking the suburbs

Cause I can't tell which house is mine

We're rocking the suburbs

We part the shades and face facts

They got better looking Fescue
Right across the cul de sac

— Ben Folds, "Rockin' the Suburbs" (Over the Hedge version)

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order, an insulated border
In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown

—Rush, Subdivisions

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