Quotes About Surroundings

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet:

Si te rodeas de personas más pequeñas que tú, acabarás siendo un enano. Si te rodeas de personas más grandes que tú, te convertirás en un gigante.

Curiosity familiarized the cat with its surroundings so it wouldn't be surprised.

Perhaps it's all an animal existence,' he said. He had to raise his voice above the rattle of the bus. Below them passed the dark waters of the river.

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Emotion integrates but emotivity isolates. So free yourself from affectivity. In this absence of emotivity, you may have the impression at first that you become indifferent. But very soon you'll see that there is really affection for your surroundings. Emotion, affection, is giving.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

We do not exist through ourselves alone but through the environment that shaped us.

front of a pretty red-roofed house. All about the square were

We become part of what we are around.

We become part of what we are around. — Unknown

L'amour est notre expérience du divin, de la sainteté sacrée. Il est la richesse qui se trouve autour de nous. C'est à nous de le prendre.

like a priest's cassock reaching to the feet. It was altogether a lugubrious figure of a man, sinister and funereal, yet it seemed in perfect harmony with the general character of its surroundings.

In London, I used to play 'Boys of Summer,' but it didn't feel right, because it doesn't apply to your surroundings, to the weather. I remember being in L.A. and listening to that record and going, 'Oh, I get it now.'

I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.

I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

We others, who have long lost the more subtle of the physical senses, have not even proper terms to express an animal's inter-communications with his surroundings, living or otherwise, and have only the word 'smell,' for instance, to include the whole range of delicate thrills which murmur in the nose of the animal night and day, summoning, warning, inciting, repelling.