There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
“It was like he'd sprung fully-formed from my eighteen-year-old fantasies, the hot History teacher who just couldn't help himself.” — Abigail Barnette Copy Share Image
Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the… — Kevin Richardson Copy Share Image
Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
Many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right? It's part of our experience growing up. It's part of… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes, twists,… — Eugenie Laverne Mitchell Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm OK with guns in schools, if it's a security, trained security personnel. But every teacher having a gun, I don't know… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
My dad was a vicar and my mum was a primary school teacher, so I was always aware of being in a… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
“Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose for my high school… — Drew McIntyre Copy Share Image
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
I hated sport, but at 13, I went to an aerobics class and the teacher thought I had natural rhythm. She suggested… — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?" — James E. Myers Copy Share Image
As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Id been wanting to do dramatic work for awhile, and Ive been studying with a really wonderful acting teacher, Diana Castle. — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image