Teacher Quotes · Page 48

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

— Annie Proulx

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

— Yalitza Aparicio

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

— Jeanine Tesori

Happiness is when you forgot to do your homework, and the teacher is absent.

— Anonymous

That annoying kid in class who constantly reminds the teacher that we had homework.

— Anonymous

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all pupils”

— Louis Hector Berlioz

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

— Devon Sawa

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

— Dree Hemingway

The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers…

— Walter Gropius

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction,…

— Warren MacKenzie

I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional…

— David Olusoga

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from…

— Paulo Coelho

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to…

— Claire McCaskill

There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle;…

— Gemma Galgani

Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a…

— J. Vernon McGee

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in…

— Margaret Atwood

I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought…

— Larry the Cable Guy

“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One…

— Suzy Kassem

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people…

— Paulo Coelho

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way.…

— David Small

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind…

— Beatrice Sparks

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography…

— Sam Abell

My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about…

— Florence Nightingale

Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it…

— Chuck Close

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

— Les Dawson

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

— Bruce Dickinson

“Be a great student of life, so you can be an outstanding teacher of living.”

— Hasheem Francis

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

— Bunker Roy

“I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“teachers choose materials, they consider materials’ individuality; unusual”

— Ann Lewin-Benham

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

— Bruce Rauner

I just felt like every situation I was in, I had a teacher that really was motivating me.

— John Smoltz

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

— T.I

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him…

— Wanda Landowska

“View everyone around you as a teacher; from some, seek to learn what not to do and from others, what to do.”

— Amey Hegde

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

— Lucy Deakins

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

— Robert A. Johnson

Don't you hate when the teacher ask you a question that is impossible to answer

— Ralphsartin

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

— Malala Yousafzai

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar