Teachers Quotes · Page 26

“But I’m the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!” “Okay,”

— James Patterson

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and…

— John Mackey

“No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These…

— Shannon L. Alder

I come from a family of preachers and teachers.

— Wes Moore

In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I…

— Katharine Ross

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

— Bruce Dickinson

“I thought, Dad. Could I go to Vietnam for you? Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I…

— Tucker Elliot

“The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students.”

— Laurie Gray

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

— Benjamin Franklin

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

— Craig T. Nelson

Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that…

— John Locke

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

— Nancy Gibbs

“University of California, Irvine, Professor of Art and Engineering, Codirector of Arts, Computation, and Engineering (ACE) Program Kavita Philip University of California,…

— Cathy N. Davidson

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

— Craig R. Barrett

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that…

— Alexandra Bracken

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to…

— Matt Damon

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

— Randy Pausch

You're here to learn. I'm here because it's the fucking law.

— Maicy Rasmus

“I don’t understand. Why can’t she just be like the other teachers? Why does she have to care?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be…

— G-Eazy

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me…

— Abraham Verghese

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of…

— John Mackey

We need to support our educators, give them the tools that they need to be successful.

— Miguel Cardona