City Quote by Charles Best

Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I…

— Pedro Noguera

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I…

— Greg Davies

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left…

— George Lucas

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

— Mikey Way

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

— Anne Lamott

I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even…

— Alison Goldfrapp

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

— John Smoltz

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have…

— Ryan Gosling

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Teachers, people, and, to be honest, some of my classmates didn't understand me. I was the person they didn't like because I would always…

— Yungblud

I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived…

— Viola Davis

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection…

— Zhang Ziyi