Surroundings Quotes · Page 5

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

— Leona Lewis

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.

— Corrie Ten Boom

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

— Anonymous

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

— Maya Lin

For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.

— Joel Parkinson

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

— Paul Cezanne

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

— Stephen Gardiner

People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops…

— Pauly Shore

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder…

— Susan Minot

In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror…

— Eugene Delacroix

Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false…

— Hillary Clinton

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the…

— Isabelle Eberhardt

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as…

— Hildegard Knef

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to…

— Joyce Meyer

Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is…

— Louise Dickinson Rich

We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is…

— Michael Crichton

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo…

— Grace Lin

Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect…

— John Templeton

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the…

— Luther Standing Bear

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than…

— Ernest Sosa

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

— Emile Durkheim

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

— Martin Bashir

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

— Kasey Anderson

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

— K. D. Lang

As a 16-year-old boy, to leave your parents, leave your surroundings, it makes you grow a bit faster.

— Serge Gnabry

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

— Leigh Newman

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

— Anonymous

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and…

— Francis Bacon

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

— Katharine Viner

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

— Ian McDiarmid

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

— Maya Lin

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

— John Maynard Keynes

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