Quotes About Community

I had a very wonderful growing up. I was surrounded by loving people.

I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than most scripts because it was about an environment that I knew.

That's why I don't live in L.A. First of all, I don't have the money. But second, I want to stay grounded, to be surrounded by real people, to have my head on my shoulders instead of losing track of reality.

I've always believed the better the players I'm surrounded by, the better I am. I've never tried to think of myself as anything different. I know who I am as a basketball player and I'm never going to try to pretend that I'm more or less, but definitely not more.

I don't believe many teams can do it just with one really, really good player. You have to be surrounded with a good cast.

I surrounded myself with very positive people who only wanted the best for me. I loved high school as a whole. I consider myself really lucky.

When Muslims live and grow up in a separate neighborhood in London, they are surrounded only by their culture. They don't need to integrate with other cultures, they don't need to mix with other people... When we don't live together, we start hating each other.

I realized home is wherever you're surrounded by positive people who love and support you.

To me, just to be surrounded by others, even without a common purpose, is great fulfillment.

I've been very blessed to be surrounded by some very special people.

Well, we lived in Newbury first, until I was five. Then we went to Cheltenham, which is lovely, a really sweet town. We lived surrounded by hills. It was the best place to grow up.

It's more than just dance - it's about a living a healthier, happier life, surrounded by inspiring people.

Make sure you surround yourself with good friends. I've been fortunate that I was blessed to be surrounded with a great family, but also I've got a great group of friends that I've had since high school who have helped me get to where I am.

In Willesden I was surrounded by quite a few footballers, but a lot of them have fallen off, and that's not something I wanted to do.

I write well in LA, because the pressure is off and I'm surrounded by ambitious people who are really encouraging.

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

I moved to the States, and that was a big thing for me. I moved to Miami, and I joined the Blackzilians. For me at the time, it seemed like the best logical solution, but sometimes surrounding yourself with new people is not good.

As soon as you start listening to the gossip surrounding you, you just get dragged down by it.

I feel like my strength is surrounding myself with people who have an ear for things, and then they play it for me. I'm always looking; my ear is always open.

My parents were very protective of me. Hockley had some crime, so my mum didn't want me out there, and my dad was the same. I would have to be in at a certain time, as there was a lot of violence surrounding our area.

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.

The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don't have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.