Teacher Quotes · Page 9

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

— Henny Youngman

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

— William Nicholson

Thanks to my father, there's a teacher in me also.

— Himani Shivpuri

My teachers were often very eccentric.

— Anne Waldman

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

— Pete Seeger

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

— Roy Peter Clark

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

YOUR LAST MISTAKE IS YOUR BEST TEACHER

— RMKATTA

I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.

— Frederick Lenz

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

— Martin H. Fischer

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

— Sidney Sugarman

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

— Elie Wiesel

“You have to feel. Otherwise you end up like the piano teacher.”

— Veronika Mittermair

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

— Ilsa J. Bick

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

— Charles Kuralt

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his…

— Pat Conroy

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him…

— Howard G. Hendricks

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me…

— Eva Green

My mom was a special-needs teacher for many years, so I knew her students. And one of my best friends from when…

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of…

— Saint Basil

“You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

— Elie Wiesel

My acting teacher always told us the script should be crumpled up and covered in coffee stains and peanut butter smudges -…

— Karl Glusman

“I'm not really the author, the entrepreneur, the DJ, the martial artist, the teacher, the lecturer, the music producer, or even the…

— Robin Sacredfire

There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel…

— Henry B. Eyring

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these…

— Franz Cizek

“You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody.…

— Tayari Jones

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report.…

— Steven Wright

Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a…

— Barack Obama

Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All…

— Elie Wiesel

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free…

— Chief Joseph

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

— Steven Pressfield

My aesthetic is, in short, 'cool substitute teacher.'

— Josh Gondelman

You remember all your teachers.

— Kelvin Sampson

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

— Whitney Houston

My teacher used to insult me because I always miss U.

— Anonymous

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

— Rumi

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

— Albrecht Durer

“Life is a teacher. We are the student.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita