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

Bertrand Russell

Not everyone from our (suburban) Cleveland office elected to relocate. We're doing a lot of recruiting now because we will have a high number of positions to fill.

Bill Bonner

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Ronald Steel

In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal.

Peter Blake

By selling suburban (office) properties, we can create the resources to help us invest in additional downtown properties. We think the central business districts will make a comeback.

Frank Kass

In the spirit of the agreement, I'm currently in the process of having our radio ad pulled from New York City and surrounding suburban markets.

Bill Powers

Most people who get sick are urban and suburban visitors.

Jim Keen

I believe the market will see close to one million square feet of spec suburban office space under construction by year-end 2006 as tenant demand continues to increase.

Clint Miller

The definitions related to open space are weak in that they do not distinguish between lands set aside for resource-conservation purposes versus lands set aside for recreational purposes; nor do the definitions recognize necessary distinctions between urban, suburban and rural lands.

Craig Richardson

I just think that Mark has got the attributes it would really take to lead the city - fresh leadership and a new viewpoint, ... puts him in good stead with the suburban folks.

Dusty Rhodes

The way it's designed, it's compatible for most suburban office users.

Andy May

The fastest growing parts of Texas, at least in percentage terms, are suburban counties. Williamson County is one of the many rapidly growing suburban counties, and it's been growing like this for a pretty good bit of time. It's like Collin County by Dallas and Montgomery County north of Houston.

Steve Murdock

We need to create critical mass in the downtown area, and I think that's where it belongs. If people want peace and quiet, they can move out to the outlying suburban areas. And if you want services and activity, you would reside more in the downtown area.

Joseph Simone

All the past (major U.S.) disasters, they have hit suburban areas, not the central urban areas of major cities.

Mary Comerio

The win to me was more important than the City championship because it made a statement saying that we can beat suburban teams. A lot of people didn't expect it, so the game spoke louder than a lot of our championship games did.

Allyson Wilson

Why should a female hip-hop artist have to spend time in an urban concrete jungle while other female prisoners are assigned to rural, suburban-type prison camps?

Londell Mcmillan

I like living in Indiana. There is a little more space. It's a lot like the remote suburban place that I grew up. Living in the city is too expensive.

Kathy Mash

We're saying, 'Don't create a suburban office park just a mile away,' .

Charles Meeker

This part of Lutz is suburban. The proposed height for a hospital is compatible on Van Dyke Road next to a theater and supermarket.

Andrew Baker

The committee worked hard on trying to protect that as much as possible. I think the land use study is something that is beneficial for the community. It gives, hopefully, a guideline that kind of protects the individual and doesn't just let the region become one big suburban area.

Donald Jernigan

The antitrust people never seemed to catch on that suburban monopolies act in the way that urban monopolies do.

John Mcmanus

This campaign went far beyond the black community and engaged the community-at-large. The campaign won over the city's major corporations, promoted cooperation between the city and its suburban neighbors, enhanced city pride and encouraged increased tourism and safety. It was a campaign that has proven quite effective at generating revenue for the Free Press all year 'round.

Vincent Barnes

On balance, I've been trying to sell out my suburban properties. Strategically, for me and for Jack it's been the right thing to do.

Frank Kass

Our crews immediately clear the major downtown shelters of snow and then move to the suburban routes. However, during the following day, or even that same day, the snowplows operated by the city, county and state invariably plow the shelters and stops full of snow. This cycle repeats itself endlessly, throughout the entire city.

Dennis Jensen

It doesn't matter if they are black or white, whether they come from urban or suburban neighborhoods. When they basically get what they want and there are less rules that apply to them, the potential for abusive situations is increased.

Jeff Benedict

We also like that it's the first Club Monaco in the Boston market, so it's not something that you'll see in suburban malls.

Amy Daniels

The suburban commute has become ridiculous. A new generation of working people is focused on adding to their quality of life. They want more time for family and social activities. That long commute has caused the deterioration of their quality of life.

Jerry Starkey

Runs have been surprisingly hard to come by during the early season. I guess we've been coming around slowly, but we really broke out today. I hope we can keep it up at Andrew today in the SouthWest Suburban.

Terry Piazza

It's very much an ensemble film — I can't stress that enough because all the actors I worked with are all tremendous, ... Many different things happen within the film, the characters kind of intertwine and by the end, they come to the same level and connect. So it's hard to explain, but basically it's about dysfunctional youth and families in suburban America.

Jamie Bell

It was a hardship for the family. They lived in a suburban home, and they didn't have a car for a year before deciding to move to a retirement community. The boomer generation is faced with these tough decisions now. And, of course, we're going to be older drivers in another 15 to 20 years.

Barbara Harsha

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

Chris Nelson

People have told us that no true full-service hotels have been built in suburban cities in years, maybe decades.

Van Kirk

In terms of a suburban city, we are a very old neighborhood.

Linda Hanson

If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...

Julie Ask

It's much more intensive. It takes longer to plan and longer to get approval. The kind of building is very different from what most suburban builders do.

John Mcilwain

We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.

Joe Arnold

Today's generation of workers are focused on family and social activities. In suburban communities, it's not uncommon to spend 1-1/2 hours each way commuting to work. That's destroying the quality of life.

Jerry Starkey

It's the old axiom: location, location, location. Suburban sprawl has now surrounded these communities. Suddenly you have a 10- to 15-acre property in a suburban area, and it becomes an attractive target ... for commercial and residential developers.

Bruce Savage

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

Mark Aaron

It is imprudent to assume that these measures will be able to alter traditional, suburban transportation.

William Elliott

The suburban schools have traditionally done better than the city schools, and I believe that's due to economics, plus, in the city schools we water each other down. We're fragmented, but in the suburbs you have one high school that everybody goes to.

Haywood Boston

There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.

Jeanne Allen

The SouthWest Suburban Conference is 10-deep. We have to be ready. There will be a lot of state medals out of the conference. It's going to be very competitive Saturday.

Mike Polz

Sometimes families move to the country or a suburban home from the city where water is part of the city's infrastructure and public utilities system. Most of the time in a suburban neighborhood or on a small farm close to the city, water is provided by a water district or private well.

Wayne Thompson

The costs and consequences of poorly planned development are becoming clear and common. This report proves that we can manage suburban sprawl by adopting and implementing smart growth solutions.

Carl Pope

Jayson has turned his life around. He defines the character we were trying to get for our team. When we needed a hit of personality -- when we were too nondescript, a suburban team without urban sizzle -- Jayson jumped in and created a persona for us.

Michael Rowe

There will be a lot of pressure without a lot of thought to get something done, ... If they build and build, or turn over big chunks of land to suburban (style) developers, the result will be a mess.

John Norquist

[A neighbor said he spotted Tony Clement, 60, inside a white suburban parked outside Hillcrest Elementary School performing a lewd act.] I clearly saw it, ... I ran to my home to get a camera, I ran back to the vehicle with the camera, turned it on so I could expose this person.

Kevin Green

I know (Averill Park) plays in the Suburban Council. That's a tough league and they did well. We'll play physical, play defense, and use our athleticism. Whatever it takes to win.

Jimmer Fredette

An awful lot of this is coming from what we call suburban flight.

Vince Thompson

Light trucks, Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban represent 40 [percent] to 50 percent of GM's profitability in North America, so every day is extremely painful for the economy.

Thomas Galvin

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

Grant Thrall

I modeled it on Pflugerville. The zombies live in a suburban environment, like Pflugerville. Most zombie movies begin with the plague. Mine is more of a mature world.

John Mclean

This looks like a really good suburban project dropped into an urban setting.

Frank Wright

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

Our defense has to be good to compete in the West Suburban Silver. We have the best four defensive linemen in the Silver.

Cecil Ratliff

This investigation graphically proves the reach and depth of the internationally directed cocaine trade that affects far too many communities within our nation -- from major cities to smaller cities, from suburban locations to rural areas.

Donnie Marshall

Suburban users as well as city users must share in the cost of the plan, so they also must share in the savings of the plan.

Ceeon Quiett

Learning about bears and being aware of their habits is a responsibility that comes with living in rural and suburban Pennsylvania or recreating in the outdoors.

Mark Ternent

I'm very pleased to see this. It always seemed crazy to me to have the senior management sitting in suburban New York and have the divisional people all out of Memphis, Tennessee.

Mark Wilde

A suburban mall turned vertical.

Paul Goldberger

Look at our population here. People come from all over the country: urban areas, rural areas, suburban areas. We also have international students here. If you look at the national statistics, and you look at correlation and probability, that means that possibly one in 200 students here could be HIV positive.

Charlene Kopchick

It's much more about communication and consent in urban and suburban areas than it is in other, more rural places. You have to rely much more on private landowners to get access to the places where the deer are and to get their permission to do certain things.

Cal Dubrock

The grants will enhance open space and environmental resources and create urban and suburban corridors for more hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities, ... Autumn is a beautiful time of year to get out and experience nature at its best.

Bradley Campbell

They are coming into suburban areas as we build further out into wildlife habitat. We're not going to eradicate feral hogs. But we can develop strategies to reduce their damages.

Billy Higginbotham

One of the things that impressed me was that blend of the traditional Southern revival with the cultural sensibilities of a middle-class suburban congregation.

Nancy Ammerman

We have a huge influx of single, young, affluent people. Other wards may be more suburban, more family-oriented.

Jack Evans

Wal-Mart has become aware of how they are perceived and that they don't want to be perceived as down market in part because it makes it difficult to penetrate certain urban and suburban markets. I think they want to get that middle-class customer to spend money with them.

Fred Fox

Suburban is the industry benchmark when it comes to capability and the 2007 model affirms the reputation established in 1935, when the first Suburban was introduced.

Ed Peper

I lived [in Irvine], but I never felt totally accepted as one of these rich white suburban kids. I wasn't economically deprived like so many of my Chicano brothers and sisters, but I felt the tension and the rejection--and that's when I started getting into hip-hop, started break-dancing. `The Message,' `Rapper's Delight,' Run-DMC...that was what was happening around that time.

Zack De La Rocha