I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs – every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.
I grew up in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, a small village near Barcelona. My house was near the countryside, so there was a lot of nature, and at the same time my village is surrounded by factories. That conditioned me a little bit.
Everyone says my family are so lucky to be surrounded by so many sweet treats, but to be honest, the novelty has worn off for the kids.
My family is vital to me – just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.
At the end of the day, it’s not where you get drafted. It’s not going to set you in stone with how good you’re going to be in your NFL career. Obviously, it’s being surrounded by the right people, the right coaches, how you present yourself, how you work hard.
Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it’s about the people you’re surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.
My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.
The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.
I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day – if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I’m not a complete goofball, though.
My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. I don’t think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances.
Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That’s what I would like on my last day.
We’re so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
I’m surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.
I’ve always surrounded myself with funny people.
I am always surrounded by very, very charming men, very intelligent men with a great sense of humour who always keep me entertained and pampered.
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 couldn’t make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn’t be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‘all options are open’ – meaning the threat of war.
Sometimes, when I’m surrounded by a lot of people, I shake, I’m so nervous.
Growing up, I was surrounded by many great men in my life. I watched them and learned, taking it in like a sponge.
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world’s most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who ‘outrank’ you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.
I believe that I’ve improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.
I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.
Without sounding pretentious, it’s nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.
I loved my experience on ‘Downton Abbey.’ We shot it in six months, and it was the first time I’d ever been on TV, and I was surrounded by my friends. It was a wonderful, wonderful time.
Surrounded by soy boys and pallid milquetoasts, left-wing women often secretly hanker for a Neanderthal macho man in their life.
Things can be tough even when surrounded by nice Pottery Barn stuff.
People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the wrong people. And you’ve got to be careful with that. But he’s redeemed himself and came back.
I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.
Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats.
I’ve been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I’ve absorbed some of that.
We live surrounded by people who sound like us, vote like us, spend like us. We get only the news we want to. And then scream into the social media echo chamber that is designed to serve us up information we already like.
My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
