Famous Quotes
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.
- Sarah Jessica Parker on Teacher
- My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
- Mark Mothersbaugh on Teacher
- My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
- Condoleezza Rice on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
- Simon Callow on Teacher
- My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
- Archie Panjabi on Teacher
- My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.
- Josh Duhamel on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
- Chris Hayes on Teacher
- My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
- Laura Benanti on Teacher
- My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
- Freeman A. Hrabowski III on Teacher
- My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
- Marilyn Hacker on Teacher
- My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
- My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
- Jai Courtney on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
- My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
- Ellie Kemper on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.
- Steven Chu on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
- Miles Teller on Teacher
- My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
- My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
- Idina Menzel on Teacher
- NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
- Christa McAuliffe on Teacher
- Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
- Loretta Young on Teacher
- No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
- William Osler on Teacher
- No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
- Renee Fleming on Teacher
- No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
- Antonio Tabucchi on Teacher
- None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
- Thurgood Marshall on Teacher
- Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
- Maggie Gallagher on Teacher
- Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
- Katherine Jenkins on Teacher
- Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.
- 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 on Teacher
- One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
- Philip Wylie on Teacher
- One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
- Andrew Cohen on Teacher
- One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
- Ally Condie on Teacher
- Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
- Bodhidharma on Teacher
- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
- Timothy McVeigh on Teacher
- People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.
- Doug E. Fresh on Teacher
- Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
- Glenn Beck on Teacher
- Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
- Huston Smith on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
- William Glasser on Teacher
- Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
- William Hazlitt on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.
- Temple Grandin on Teacher
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