Acting Quote by Laura Carmichael

“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a week, it…

— Katha Pollitt

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

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told…

— Noam Chomsky

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't…

— Derek Jacobi

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

— George J. Mitchell

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a…

— John Irving

“It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't, you weren't…

— José Saramago

You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many…

— Christa McAuliffe

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study…

— Roald Dahl

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in…

— Olivia De Havilland

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The United States is a conceited nation with shallow roots, and what happened before living memory doesn't seem to interest most people I know…

— Katharine Weber