Teacher Quotes · Page 65

My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Teachers already open a door for you, only you need to walk through it .

— Anonymous

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

— Anonymous

You know shit is about to go down when the quiet kid in class curses

— Anonymous

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

— Kate DiCamillo

Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.

— Frederick Lenz

I'll never forget the day I went home and told my wife, 'I'll never be a kindergarten teacher.'

— Matt Nagy

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”

— Elbert Hubbard

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his…

— Betty Edwards

The teacher instructed the students to put away everything because they will have a quiz.The boy kicked the girl beside him out…

— Migzylou

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still…

— G. Stanley Hall

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew…

— Andrew Davies

I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best…

— Cara Buono

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

— Richard Hamming

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring…

— Nancy Kassebaum

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught…

— Annie Besant

“Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books…

— R.K. Narayan

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development…

— Maria Montessori

You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are…

— Frederick Lenz

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying…

— Sakyong Mipham

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math…

— Danica McKellar

Some of the things that happened at theater camp, you would tell somebody and they would never believe. But if you're a…

— Molly Gordon

Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal…

— Howard Dean

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

— Clea DuVall

Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

— Maury Massler

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

— Leopold Fechtner

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

— Nikki Giovanni

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

— Peter Brimelow

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

— Mike Huckabee

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

— Anonymous

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

— Marva Collins

“Do not make a mistake and think God has abandoned you, the teacher remains silent during a test.”

— Muzzi Magnificent

I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.

— Colson Whitehead

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

— Gordon Ramsay

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

— Plato

If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

— Danny McBride