We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.
We do our worst when we’re surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.
Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.
Having studied in a girls school, I was always surrounded by women, all of who were strong-willed and came from army backgrounds, that played a very important role in my life.
For two years, I’d lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It’s jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.
I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother’s first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
Someone said that friends are angels in disguise. If this is true, I have been surrounded by angels for most of my life.
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
If you’re surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit.
When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you’re just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage.
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
We’re surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves… They say, ‘Look what I can do,’ and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that’s ridiculous. Filmmaking isn’t a contest!
It is my goal to learn as much about the people I’m surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.
My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
I don’t like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can’t see in buildings and cars.
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.
A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours – one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.
I’m surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don’t have any problem telling me I’m acting like an idiot or I’m not that funny.
Imagine being a running back or a receiver. You get tackled, and then when you get up, you’re surrounded by a bunch of guys, and they’re all screaming and yelling at you… Mentally, it wears on you, like, ‘God, how long can I do this?’ It’s a mental thing.
I wanted to become a champ – I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood – and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys – from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between – which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we’d get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.
I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it’s been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.
When you’re writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can’t just be out of the air.
I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was growing up and always wanted to be surrounded by wildlife.
People can get lost in the movie star world. They can’t check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.
Life coaching, the mental and physical well-being of footballers, is going to be really important. I don’t mean necessarily in a deep psychological way. But they’re surrounded by a lot of people. Important people, seemingly. Not always. But important in their worlds. They’re mini companies.
I learned that when you’re lucky enough to be surrounded by such talented people that you really become more of an orchestrator of this talent – you’re just trying to harmonise everyone’s contributions.
I made ‘Heading Out’ with a lot of love and surrounded myself with brilliant people who challenged me to do my best and also gave a great deal of love and support back. As a result, the experience was blissful.
I was always surrounded by people that wanted to mentor you.
The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.
For myself, I never thought that I’d ever be able to even buy a house. Sometimes when you don’t have it, and you’re not surrounded my entrepreneurs, you don’t think about it.
Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can’t breathe. It’s nervousness and I don’t know what else.
I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
I think the world is surrounded by love.
I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.
I grew up in New York City – I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.
My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!
I love being able to record in a room that’s surrounded by trees.
