Gaby Rodriguez Quotes

#1. Practically turned green and ripped your shirt off while running toward her. Man, I thought he was dead when you hit him.

R.D. Cole

#2. A community that doesn't think it needs a library isn't a community for whom a library is irrelevant. It's a community that's ill.

Josh Hanagarne

#3. I look at her - at the girl I gave my heart to - and I wonder how I got so lucky.

Anonymous

#4. We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

Frances Beinecke

#5. Why do we insist on putting limitations on what people are capable of doing?

Gaby Rodriguez

#6. I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

Maureen Johnson

#7. Why do people give into stereotypes others have about them? Why would you ever let someone else's negative thoughts dictate how you're going to leave your life?

Gaby Rodriguez

#8. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

Gaby Rodriguez

#9. You have to fight for what you want in life. You can't live your life in the shadow of your brothers or sisters or parents; you have to live your life, and make it a good life, because you only have one.

Gaby Rodriguez

#10. Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read the labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what's inside

Gaby Rodriguez

#11. Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

Timberlake Wertenbaker