Teachers Quotes

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Work, Art, Giving

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Negative, Show, Students

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Solomon Ortiz

Greatest, Tomorrow, Young

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
Fareed Zakaria

Money, Government, School

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Bryant H. McGill

Life, Great, Suffering

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Bertolt Brecht

Knowledge, Crazy, Learn

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Sylvester Stallone

School, End, High

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott

Teacher, Before, Copy

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Xun Zi

Moral, Principles, Lack

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
Jeff Bridges

Mother, Father, Brother

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
Petra Nemcova

Funny, Afraid, Speak

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
Sachin Tendulkar

Football, Cricket, Playing

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
Tom Hiddleston

Life, War, Learning

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle

Children, Quite, Teach

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Charles Kuralt

Good, Best, Students

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Ann Bancroft

Teacher, Struggle, Wanted

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts

Life, Good, Great

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori

Work, Help, Wait

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon

Important, Two, Personal

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
Francis Ford Coppola

School, Number, Hated

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
David Duchovny

Work, Mom, Real

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Bill Nye

Find, Sure, Liked

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
Jeb Bush

Teacher, Difference, Quality

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Charles Kennedy

Children, Tell, High

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
Donna Shalala

Makes, Support, Difference

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

Experience, Wisdom, Spiritual

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
Danica McKellar

Time, Good, Home

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson

Time, Nothing, Give

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

Good, Great, Best

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Famous, American, Whole

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