I’m a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie. – Big Smo
As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while. – Elizabeth Debicki
Do not suppress it – that would hurt you inside. Do not express it – this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. – Peace Pilgrim
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. – Emmeline Pankhurst
I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing. – Paula Radcliffe
All Americans need a sense of place. That’s what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. – Ed McMahon
All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. – Max Heindel
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn’t funny on some level is quite hard. – Ned Beauman
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. – Rose Tremain
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. – William H. O’Connell
