Anna Maria Chavez Quotes

#1. Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Anna Maria Chavez

#2. If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

Alan Bradley

#3. I'm not pessimistic about anything.

Paul Watson

#4. Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

Anna Maria Chavez

#5. Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Anna Maria Chavez

#6. The Gallifreyan balls are my favourite because you can juggle with them!

Jenna Coleman

#7. You should seek approval from yourself.

Ichiro Suzuki

#8. Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

Donald Wildmon

#9. Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

Anna Maria Chavez

#10. Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

Anna Maria Chavez

#11. I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real

Michael Connelly

#12. Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

Anna Maria Chavez

#13. America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

Anna Maria Chavez

#15. Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

Leland Ryken

#16. I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni

Anna Maria Chavez

#17. Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Anna Maria Chavez

#18. People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith!

Karen Armstrong

#19. Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

Anna Maria Chavez

#20. As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.

Anna Maria Chavez

#21. Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots ... The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

Cornelia Fort

#22. Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.

Anna Maria Chavez

#23. At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

Anna Maria Chavez

#24. What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

Anna Maria Chavez

#25. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

Anna Maria Chavez