Teacher Quotes

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Gordon Ramsay

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

Jet Li

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

Victor Salva

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

David Puttnam

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

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

Tony Visconti

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

Gus Van Sant

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Linda Evangelista

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Joseph Conrad

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Jane Haddam

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Timothy McVeigh

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Allan Bloom

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Brigitte Bardot

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

Kerry Healey

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

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Fred W. Friendly

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.

Yo-Yo Ma

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Joe Davis