Teacher Quotes

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

Yakov Smirnoff

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

A good teacher is a determined person.

Gilbert Highet

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Josef Albers

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Loretta Young

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Clay Aiken

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

John Madden

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Jane Austen

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Gordon Getty

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

Roddy Doyle

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Temple Grandin

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Liam Neeson

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Norman MacCaig

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

Craig Ferguson

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

Brad Garrett

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

Alanna Ubach

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Beerbohm

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Nina Simone