#surround

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me. ↗

— Jack White

#different #different way #family #grade #grade school

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it. ↗

— Ryan White

#aids #battle #been #discrimination #most

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#even #finite #grasp #infinite #infinitude

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#easy #everywhere #looking #paper #poetry

I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#friends #gives #grade #honestly #i

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. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#civil #civil rights #color #guaranteed #his

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#feeling #hope #life #meaning #regardless

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#guys #i #making #movie #relationships

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#always #country #ecology #europe #foreign

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#away #birds #dinner #go #i