Teacher Quotes

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan." Is it Nate?" She calls me Honeylips.

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all.

What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.