Quotes for Teacher

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Gordon Bell

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

Joanne Harris

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

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

Louis Sachar

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

My mom was a theater teacher and helped me out a lot as a kid when I was starting out.

Peyton List

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

Zhang Ziyi

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

Jonathan Shapiro

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Josef Albers

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Sela Ward

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

Peter Jurasik

If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

Kel Mitchell

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Eli Broad

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

Betsy Brandt

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

Kym Whitley

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Frank Press

A good teacher is a determined person.

Gilbert Highet

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.

Greg Iles

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

Dave Winfield

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor