Teacher Quotes · Page 97

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better…

— Thomas Friedman

“i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a…

— David Levithan

“You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?”

— David Sedaris

“for a teacher, there is no greater joy than finding a student with the willingness to learn, the capacity to do great…

— Gina LaManna

“I guess I'll see you third period, Mr. Cooper," she says as she exits the room. The way she refers to me…

— Colleen Hoover

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the…

— Virginia Satir

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of…

— Taylor Mali

“How'd you get to be so good at this?" "I had a good teacher." "Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have…

— Rachel Caine

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever…

— Laozi

When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from…

— Common

I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the…

— Simon Pegg

“When one commits to a spiritual teacher, one automatically benefits from the energetic field of that teacher. All one has to do…

— Donna Goddard

I had a fantastic teacher in high school. I had one of those guys you dream of having, who molds your life…

— Brent Spiner

“Darkness seems to have prevailed and has taken the forefront. This country as in the 'cooperation' of The United States of America…

— Lalah Delia

I taught second grade for years before I became an art teacher, and I would always encourage the parents to get some…

— Karen Pence

People often say that mothers are the best teachers in the world. Over the years, I have come to know that it…

— Anonymous

I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or…

— Jesse Lacey

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because…

— Richard Griffiths

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

— Anonymous

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher…

— Forest Whitaker

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited…

— Big Sean

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of…

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paul Lockhart

I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

— Netta Barzilai

We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a…

— Justin Timberlake

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or…

— Sugata Mitra

I lived with my teacher and he was my father and he practiced every day so I practiced every day and we…

— Anoushka Shankar

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there…

— Matthew Arnold

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine…

— Mariah Carey

Every teacher in elementary school loved me because I was always goofing around. I was taller than most of the guys and…

— Nikola Jokic

There was kind of a pivotal moment in my life in junior high school when my English teacher told me I should…

— Sarah Rafferty

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an…

— Ajay Naidu

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise…

— David Eddings

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a…

— Tyler Hilton

Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just…

— Frederick Lenz

The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness.…

— Gary Zukav

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an…

— Alfred Nobel

“Before students leave, I ask for an exit ticket. I have students record on a sticky note one question they have about…

— Cris Tovani

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror…

— Adrienne Rich

There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.

— KRS-One