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I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.
— Jenn Proske
We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.
— Thom Tillis
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
— Diogenes
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
— Tucker Carlson
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
— Dallas Willard
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
— Roy Barnes
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
— John Mahoney
I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.
— Rick Riordan
To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.
— Thomas Friedman
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
— Timothy Noah
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
— Dorothea Dix
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
— Amy Chua
When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.
— Roger Moore
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.
— Andrew Shue
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
— John Philip Sousa
When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
— Bono
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
— Flip Wilson
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
— Bill O'Reilly
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
— Albert Camus
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
— Bertolt Brecht
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
— Elbert Hubbard
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
— Fred W. Friendly
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
— Harry S Truman
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
— Helen Keller
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
— Rush Limbaugh
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
— W. H. Auden
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
— Gerald Jampolsky
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
— Frederick William Robertson
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
— Henny Youngman
I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
— Ann Bancroft
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
— Dave Chappelle
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
— William Glasser
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
— Pope Francis
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.
— Shakira
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a real good teacher for me about organics, recycling, composting -whenever you hear me talk about it, it's usually because of my sister's influence.
— Guy Fieri
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
— Hector Berlioz
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
— Jalal Talabani
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
— William Osler
China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.
— Sun Yat-sen
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
— Linda Evangelista
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
— Walt Whitman
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
— Phil McGraw
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
— Neale Donald Walsch
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.
— Steve Guttenberg
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
— William Glasser
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
— William Glasser
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
— Tony Dungy
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
— Danica McKellar
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
— David Puttnam
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.
— James D. Watson
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
— Guy Davenport
You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
— Nash Grier
When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.
— Joy Harjo
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
— Harold Pinter
My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.
— Tony Dungy
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.
— Niki Taylor
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
— Dan Savage
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
— David Coverdale
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.
— Kim Cattrall
The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
— Patch Adams
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
— Camille Paglia
At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.
— David Harewood
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
— Barbra Streisand
Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.
— John Niven
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
— Stephen Colbert
I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.
— Gordon Ramsay
I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class.
— Kathleen Kennedy
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.
— James Franco
Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she had to trust God, that she was so privileged to be the mother of the Savior, that she had to stand there as a mother and watch her son being murdered and trust that that is what he came to do.
— Roma Downey
Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
— Piet Mondrian
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
— Max Weber
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
— Eugene Ionesco
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
— Chick Corea
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.
— Sarah Sutton
I'm trained as a teacher that's the only thing I've got a certificate for. 
— Quentin Blake
It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'
— Rob Thomas
I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.
— Carrie Ann Inaba
In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.
— Anupam Kher
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
— Langston Hughes
I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
— Maeve Binchy
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
— Xenophon
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
— Malala Yousafzai
Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.
— Rudolf Steiner
You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
— Charles Stanley
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
— Richard LaGravenese
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.
— Cormac McCarthy
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.
— Steven Wright
Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Or, I should say, I lie by omission. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us 'Johnny Tremain' and 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and 'Tuck Everlasting,' all books that made an impression on me. And people nod in approval.
— Cristina Henriquez
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
— Sal Albanese
I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms.
— Charles Michael Davis
Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.
— Andrew Young
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. 
— Maria Callas
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
— Xun Kuang
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
— Noam Chomsky
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
— Bodhidharma
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
— Gus Van Sant
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
— Erin Gruwell
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.
— Richard P. Feynman
The best teacher is an entertainer.
— Bob Keeshan
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
— Carter G. Woodson
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
— Jet Li
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
— William Osler
My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.
— David Henry Hwang
I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.
— Gina Bellman
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
— Loni Anderson
I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
— Alicia Vikander
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
— John Madden
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
— Harry Callahan
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
— Nina Simone
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
— Amartya Sen
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
— Maya Lin
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
— William Glasser
We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.
— Jesse Williams
I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.
— Scott Snyder
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
— A. N. Wilson
A child's first teacher is its mother.
— Peng Liyuan
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
— Donald Norman
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
— Craig Ferguson
I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
— Bellamy Young
I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever.
— Marie Lu
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
— Flannery O'Connor
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
— Carl Rogers
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
— Louis Farrakhan
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
— Robert Sternberg
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
— Gertrude Stein
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
— Saint Basil
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
— Hanna Rosin
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
— Matt Groening
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.
— Justin Trudeau
I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode the teacher is the detonator. 
— Pierre Boulez
My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.
— Grace Poe
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
— Caroline Leavitt
I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
— Yoko Ono
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
— Charles Kuralt
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
— Paul Wellstone
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
— Chinua Achebe
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
— Joyce Carol Oates
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
— Malala Yousafzai
There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
— Patrick Lencioni
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
— Baltasar Gracian
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
— Gilbert Highet
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
— Howard Nemerov
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
— Thucydides
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
— Sylvester Stallone
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
— Michael Porter
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
— John Strachan
I wasn't a very good teacher.
— Amos Lee
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
— Oliver Tambo
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
— Elbert Hubbard
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
— Toru Takemitsu
Experience is a great teacher.
— John Legend
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
— Dan Simmons
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
— Peter Agre
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
— Simon van der Meer
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
— Giorgio Vasari
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
— Anne Rice
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
— Audre Lorde
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
— Anne Sullivan
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.
— Paul O'Grady
I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
— Eva Green
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
— Ving Rhames
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
— William Hague
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
— Dave Grohl
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
— Robert Duvall
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
— Daniel Goleman
My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.
— Tyler Posey
I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
— Andy Andrews
Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.
— Francesca Lia Block
In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
— Michael Goldenberg
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.
— Rick Riordan
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
— Jack Canfield
I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.
— Christian Louboutin
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.
— Steve Harvey
I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.
— Joelle Carter
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
— Alan Alda
Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
— Bono
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
— Jonathan Kozol
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'
— Julia Cameron
I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.
— Conor Oberst
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
— Henry Rollins
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.
— Billy Graham
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
— Glenne Headly
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.
— Virginia Postrel
The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
— Chris Van Allsburg
My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.
— Deborah Mailman
Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
— Pete Carroll
I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.
— Rita Ora
Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.
— Stuart Scott
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.
— Max von Sydow
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
— Roz Chast
I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
— Malorie Blackman
My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.
— Ryan Potter
Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
— Heidi Hayes Jacobs
A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
— Clive Granger
When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
— Emily Berrington
I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.
— Michelle Phan
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
— Paul Muldoon
I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.
— John Ortiz
If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
— Forest Whitaker
Ever since I've given up dancing, every physiotherapist or Pilates teacher has said you have to keep moving. If I don't, I'll have a hundred times more injuries because you get weak areas on your body.
— Darcey Bussell
You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm glad I was a teacher.
— John Wooden
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
— Kevin Mitnick
I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'
— George Foreman
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
— Maya Angelou
I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.
— Mira Nair
In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
— Chris Pine
When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.
— Chris Cornell
The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.
— Kevin Mitnick
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.
— Simon Cowell
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
— Sloane Crosley
Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.
— John C. Reilly
If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?
— Sonny Bill Williams
My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.
— Will Poulter
I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
— Wes Craven
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
— Josh Turner
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
— Leo Buscaglia
I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.
— Tyler Oakley
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
— Lewis B. Smedes
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
— Elizabeth Olsen
From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.
— Jason Moran
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
— Paul O'Grady
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
— Lorrie Moore
Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
— Michael Bennet
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
— George J. Mitchell
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
— Bill Gates
I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.
— Rush Limbaugh
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
— Jeff Bridges
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
— Alice Walker
I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
— Elliott Abrams
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
— Gore Vidal
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
— John Updike
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.
— Joss Whedon