Teacher Quotes · Page 35

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

— Steven Sebring

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...

— William Osler

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

— Pete Seeger

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

— John Darnielle

I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

— Anne Sexton

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

— John Updike

There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.

— Nikhil Saluja

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves -…

— Warren Buffett

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised…

— Dan Simmons

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa…

— Seth Godin

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football…

— J. J. Watt

Let's face it. The only reason teachers ask questions is so that their Hunger Games obsesed students can scream I volunteer, I…

— Anonymous

I wasn't a bully, I wasn't horrible, but a lot of teachers just took against me. I think it was because, in…

— Paterson Joseph

My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I'd just sing along all the time.

— Lisa Stansfield

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

— Diane Ravitch

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're…

— Pat Mora

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime…

— Hermann Hesse

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she…

— Nat Hentoff

In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider…

— Paulo Freire

Animals are everything to me. I always say, 'Who rescued who?' with my horse Belle. She is my greatest teacher. She teaches…

— Beth Behrs

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

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot…

— Hank Green

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory…

— Ernst Mach

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

— Don Herold

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

— George Lucas

“You are your best teacher if you keep questioning yourself.”

— Haresh Sippy

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

— Yoko Ono

Even though I finished my test first, I wait for someone else to get up.

— Anonymous

I had never seen a white teacher before, but Mrs. Henry was the nicest teacher I ever had.

— Ruby Bridges

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

— Peter Capaldi

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

— William James

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

— Ziggy Marley

I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.

— Cameron Britton

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

— George Orwell

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

— Narendra Modi

We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

— Tenzin Palmo

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

— Cheryl Richardson