English teacher Quote by Divya Khosla Kumar

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my…

— Dale T. Mortensen

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

— Caroline Kennedy

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five…

— Chris Abani

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

— Jacki Weaver

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and…

— Lev Grossman

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

— Arizona Muse

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent.…

— Amy Tan

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

— Helen Mirren

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

— Charlotte Mason