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The years come and go, and so it is with our student body. Good byes are often
hard however so we decided to archive some of our philosophy statements presented
by members of the Class of 1999.
 | Luz Lara: I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by
the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while
trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington
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 | Denise Biglow: I believe in Christianity as I believe in the
sun -- not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else. -C. S.
Lewis |
 | Dan Bollig: Survival of the fittest. |
 | Amanda Botello: Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if
you'll die today. -James Dean |
 | Robert Gardiner: Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon
it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are
subject. Elizabeth Arden "The Life of the Mind" |
 | Sherita Green: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
you'll be amongst the stars. -Walt Disney |
 | Crystal King: The mind is everything, what you think, you
become. -Buddha |
 | Dustin Lang: What counts is not necessarily the size of the
dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight D. Eisenhower |
 | Steven Lovato: You may be deceived if you trust too much, but
you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. -Frank Crane |
 | Tanica Mack: Be not a slave of words. -Thomas Carlyle |
 | Eulalia Maestas: We are often so caught up in our destination
that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet
along the way. -Author Unknown |
 | Rhonda Manzanares: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If
you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward |
 | Matt Marquez: The optimist claims we live in the best of all
possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -James B. Cabell |
 | Jennifer McGrew: Please know that I am quite aware of the
hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their
failure must be but a challenge to others. -Amelia Earhart |
 | Estevan Montoya: Were it offered to my choice, I should have no
objection to a petition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages
authors have in a second edition, to correct some faults in the first. Benjamin
Franklin |
 | Paul Montour: What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear
what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 | LaToya Moore: I'm lost. I've gone to look for myself.
If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait. -Author Unknown |
 | Chris Olivares: If you put your mind to it, you can
accomplish anything. -Doc Brown, Back To The Future |
 | Angela Peasnall: The only way to predict the future is to
shape it. -Conrad, UK |
 | Tasha Phillips: The ideas I stand for are not mine. I
borrowed them from Socrates ... I swiped them from Chesterfield ... I stole them from
Jesus. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? -Dale Carnegie |
 | Amy Sierra: Just living is not enough
..One must have
sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson |
 | Mardy Voung: We never know the love of our parents until we
have become parents. -Henry Ward Beecher |
 | Leah Watley: The meeting of two personalities is like the
contact of two substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung |
 | Damea Williams: Know what it means to be Black, rather man or
girl. We are still strugglin' in this White Man's World. -Tupac
Shakur |

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