Surroundings Quotes · Page 6

Patriotism is a feeling that grows as you become conscious of your surroundings.

— Jubin Nautiyal

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

— Ed McMahon

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

— Jaggi Vasudev

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

— Jenna Dewan

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

— River Phoenix

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

— Jack Nicholson

If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem…

— Landon Donovan

My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life,…

— Julius Erving

Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the…

— Dennis Haysbert

Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you…

— David Niven

So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical…

— Xosha Roquemore

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream,…

— Sai Baba

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to…

— Paulo Coelho

If you want to know the reality of life, then you should travel. At first travel your country, after that start travelling…

— Imran Khan

In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by…

— Anonymous

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I…

— William Saroyan

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next…

— Tamae Watanabe

I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity…

— Bill Brandt

Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people…

— Dianna Agron

How many things would be different in everyone’s surroundings if we hadn’t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow…

— Anonymous

In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being a runner.…

— Grete Waitz

“Immerse yourself amongst the doers and soon you will find yourself doing too.”

— Just Jewel

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

— Georges St-Pierre

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of…

— Don Rickles

I don't think there's a performer in this world who makes better use of their surroundings than I do.

— Tommaso Ciampa

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

— Anonymous

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

— Phil Elvrum

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

— Robert Plant

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

— Dalai Lama

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

— Ron Conway

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

— Josh McDermitt

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

— David Adjaye

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

— Duane Elgin