Teacher Quotes

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Liev Schreiber

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Anne Sullivan Macy

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

John Glover

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Garrett Hedlund

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon van der Meer

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Warren Zevon

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Howard Nemerov

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

Dominic Monaghan

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Renee Fleming

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

William Glasser

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Connie Britton

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

Bobby Knight

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Gordon Ramsay

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa