Debra DiSilvestro:
CLASS OF 1996
Gateway High SchoolClass of 1996
Monroeville, PA
Debra's Story
Debra is from Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Debra's schools include Gateway High School.
Music Debra likes includes Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Alicia Keys. Books Debra likes include Night, The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results, Stephen King. Movies Debra likes include Dark Shadows, The Pianist, The Hours. TV shows Debra likes include Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie, The Colbert Report, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
One of Debra's favorite quotes is:""Happiness, like the butterfly, settles upon you when you least expect it." - unknown
"It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another without helping themselves." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every biggot was once a child free of prejudice." - Sister Mary de Lourdes"
"Hope" is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all." - Emily Dickinson
"It is the ability to choose that makes us human." - Madeleine L'Engle
"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - Ruth Smeltzer
"You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in."...Expand for more
- Susan Strasberg
"Differences challenge assumptions." - Anne Wilson Schaef
"Only yourself can heal you. Only yourself can lead you." - Sara Teasdale
"Real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"You cannot step in the same river twice. Each time it is different, and so are you." - Alice Walker
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Katherine Hepburn
"Walls turned sideways are bridges." - Angela Davis
"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead." - Fannie Flagg
"What you risk reveals what you value." - Jeanette Winterson
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself." - Ursula K. LeGuin
"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - The Wizard of Oz
"When we wish for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshall
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
~Johann von Goethe
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein".
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