Best Quotes of 2025

 “Every time people come in, I want them to feel like this library is a place worth celebrating.”

-Chelsea Jones, Socorro Public LIbrarian

 “We love seeing the public, but not because your house is on fire.”

-Heather Donelson, Assistant Fire Chief Northern Socorro County

“Some of the change has been inevitable, I don’t like it, some might say ‘You're just an old fart who wants it to be the way it was’, but let’s be honest it was a lot better back then,”

-Matt Middleton, Magdalena Filmmaker, 2024 who passed away in 2025

“I don’t know about being a legend,” he said. “I just wanted to make things better for the kids.”

-Gordy Hicks, former City Council

“I’ve always felt it’s important to use my skills and gifts to help other people out, being part of the fire department is a good way to help people when they’re having a really bad day.”

-Charles Blaylock, Magdalena Fire Chief 

“To live in ways, I can feel right with my community and my soul, that’s the dream.”

-Uncle River, Author in Catron County 

“A person starts to heal the moment they feel heard”

-Jason Frame, organizer of United Against Fentynal 

“I was having a mental split, where pretty much every day I knew I was in a cult and I was in denial about basically thinking that I could ignore the bad parts and enjoy the good parts.” 

-Danny 

“A piece of work that you did from your heart, nobody can take that away from you,” 

-David Boyd Jr. son of painter David Boyd Senior.

“I can’t let go of that guitar and I used to take it to school. I start singing and all the girls come around and the teacher didn’t like it. I think she got jealous…but I couldn’t stop playing that was my passion,” 

-Wayne Baca, Alamo Musician

“I feel that it’s every person’s responsibility to try and make the world a better place everyday.” Forrie Smith, Yellowstone actor

“This country’s always been full of good people. We’ve just forgotten how to look at each other as Americans.” 

– Sonny Baca

“This life forces you to slow down and see that everything has its season—growth, harvest, rest. It’s taught me to see God’s hand in all of it.”

 – Marissa Gutierrez

“If you like horses and you want to have fun on a horse, to me, Polo is a whole lot more fun than chasing a fat cow down the hill.” 

– Chuck Rodgers

“I think seeing their cultures in some of the most desolate areas and hard, hard areas, it really instilled to me that it doesn't matter if you call him God, or you call him Spirit– there is a stronger being that created us, the Creator. I carry that with me in my everyday life; that awareness and thankfulness for everything.” 

– Beatrice Elaine Janetka Bell

 “If my loom is empty, it’s crying…Each line tells a story. When I weave, it’s like praying.” 

– Violet Lucero