Teacher Quotes · Page 124

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

— Jon Gordon

“You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically." I knew what he was saying. We all…

— Mitch Albom

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had…

— Mary Steenburgen

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love…

— Taylor Mali

In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a…

— Michael Goldenberg

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

— P. T. Usha

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

— John Doerr

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

— Samuel Alito

India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it…

— Diana L. Eck

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school…

— DeRay Mckesson

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the…

— Paul Lockhart

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be…

— Timothy Keller

Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have…

— Elle Fanning

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he…

— Patti Davis

David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character…

— Sheldon Siegel

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

— Lord Chesterfield

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums…

— Lloyd Kaufman

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as…

— Alfred Adler

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

— Henry Adams

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have…

— Jonathan Swift

The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front…

— John Kuhn

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

— Charles Barkley

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

— Lenny Bruce

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose…

— Swami Vivekananda

Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as…

— Michael Josephson

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I…

— Simon Hoggart

For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It…

— Axl Rose

It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a…

— Frederick Lenz

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

— Michele Bachmann

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

— Cristiano Ronaldo

The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a…

— Frederick Lenz

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

— Jalal Talabani

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets…

— Glenn Beck

“What I call my philosophy of teaching is in fact a philosophy of learning. It comes out of Plato, modified. Before true…

— J.M. Coetzee

Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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

— Elie Wiesel

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old…

— Robert Winston

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

— Joan Cusack