Best Teacher Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.”

People Way I Can Chance Teacher University Admire

Author:Diego Luna

“The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.”

Firsts Felt Teacher Pieces Messages Add Devoted

Author:Kurt Masur

“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.”

Thinking Art Teacher Fine Majors Fine Arts Art Teacher

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“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.”

Men Teacher Grew Grew Up Rose Patient Including Peers Nurturing Admiring Cellists

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.”

Looks Play Kids Boys Teacher Picks Gun Sticks Fake Bananas Preschool

Author:Dean Norris

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

Said School Hours Study Teacher Training Constant Pursuit Enjoyed Fixed Guidance

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

School Teacher Drama High School Theater

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”

Thinking Want Done Bits Realizing Audience Teacher Teaching

Author:Jamie Oliver

“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.”

School Teacher Shoes Drunk Primaries Shops Bottles Throat Milk School Teachers Barbers Primary School Barber Shop

Author:Paul O'Grady

“I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.”

Thinking Voice Challenges Teacher Guides Mentor Think For Yourself

Author:Renee Olstead

“All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.”

Forget Teacher Just One

Author:Daniel Pennac

“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.”

Knows Looks Mean Book Rooms Education Class Know How Teacher

Author:Chuck Berry

“He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.”

Thinking Education Class Teacher Legs Staring

Author:Alice Cooper

“I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.”

Trying Looks Education Cases Teacher Sitting Intelligent Classroom

Author:Elton John

“My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.”

Education Teacher English Teacher

Author:Frank Zappa

“No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.”

Father Education Teacher Garden Method Guru

Author:Van Morrison

“Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.”

Needs Children Littles School Education Boys Teacher Need You I Need You

Author:Elton John

“Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.”

Writing Education Teacher Wall Office Smoking Halls Cigarette Principal Nasty Smoking Cigarettes

Author:Stevie Wonder

“Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.”

Education Teacher Purple Underwear

Author:Allan Sherman

“The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.”

Giving Mind Children Left Education Teacher

Author:Randy Travis

“The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.”

People Decision Teacher Teaching Position Authority Finals Ancient Jew Palestine Academy Resumes Successors Present Time Pharisees Jewish Religion

Author:Louis Finkelstein

“My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.”

Littles Bits Teacher Serious Mom Dad Little Bit My Dad My Mom Chemicals Engineers

Author:Aaron Levie

“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.”

School Father Boys Teach Teacher Son Physics Sydney Everyman

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”

Matter Government School Teacher Like You Locals Agents School Teachers

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“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.”

Wells Littles School Bits Teacher Goes On Little Bit High School Discouraged

Author:Tyler Posey

“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.”

Said Hard Wanted Young Mother Father Teacher Actresses Supportive

Author:Archie Panjabi

“The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?”

“In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.”

Comedy Too Much Teacher College

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.”

Writing Culture Teacher Contemporary Evangelical Abstinence

Author:Tom Perrotta

“My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.”

Needs Poor Teacher Mom My Mom Profession Mediocre Great Teacher

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

Knows Years School Cities Company Teacher New York Victim Selling New York City Engineers Equipment Public School Jersey New Jersey School System Layoff Filtration

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“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.”

“I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.”

World Littles I Can Book Can Do Teacher One Thing Skills Waitress

Author:Dana Spiotta

“As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.”

People Way Made Two Different Teacher Dancer Comment Different Peoples

Author:Phyllis Smith

“You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.”

Ifs May Work Teacher Educational Retirement Truck Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Pickups Redneck Humor Pickup Trucks Funny Redneck

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.”

Simple Careers Teacher Mom Dad Aviation Secretary American Life Technicians

Author:Brian Sandoval

“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

Wells Age School Born Half Teacher Four Educated Admirable Thirteen Well Educated

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

World May Children Different Girl Parent Levels Boys Teacher Periods Classroom Domain Different Worlds Different Levels Outspoken Like A Boy

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.”

School Community Environment Teacher Involvement Good Teacher

Author:David Selby

“I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.”

Years School Teacher High School Movie Sets School Years

Author:Devon Sawa

“After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.”

Years Firsts Courses Results Class Teacher Degrees University Examination First Class Obtaining Biochemistry

Author:Frederick Sanger

“I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.”

Years Two Class Teacher Hair Pet Two Years Curly Hair

Author:Howard Stringer

“Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water”

Force Sports Process Water Leadership Teacher Students Involved Drink Learning Process Stagnant Stagnant Water

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

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

Needs Values Teacher Unions Conservative Conservative Values Teachers Unions

Author:Chris Christie

“In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.”

World Needs Wisdom Able Order Universe Deals Teacher Buddhism Dimensions Mysticism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.”

Giving Shows Wisdom Reality Universe Teacher Buddhism Direct Bigger Dimensions Fascinating Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.”

Mind Wisdom Study Teacher Masters Buddhism Introspection Probing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.”

Way Study Teacher Buddhism Balance Balanced

Author:Frederick Lenz

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