Top teacher Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of teacher quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Judy Collins
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
- Judy Collins
Collection: Teacher
Image of Claudette Colvin
When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I think she came from New York. She helped me begin to question things.
- Claudette Colvin
Collection: Teacher
Image of Michael Rosen
When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always keen to know what homework I had been set, and would look over my shoulder.
- Michael Rosen
Collection: Teacher
Image of Kurt Bills
The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
- Kurt Bills
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ally Condie
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
- Ally Condie
Collection: Teacher
Image of Hampton Sides
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
- Hampton Sides
Collection: Teacher
Image of Darcey Bussell
I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my friends were going as well. It wasn't this kind of hidden love. Then, slowly, my friends stopped going and I thought, 'I like this. I am going to stay.'
- Darcey Bussell
Collection: Teacher
Image of Devon Sawa
I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.
- Devon Sawa
Collection: Teacher
Image of Howard Stringer
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
- Howard Stringer
Collection: Teacher
Image of Quentin Bryce
We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
- Quentin Bryce
Collection: Teacher
Image of Eva Longoria
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
- Eva Longoria
Collection: Teacher
Image of Adora Svitak
Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'
- Adora Svitak
Collection: Teacher
Image of Maddie Ziegler
My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
- Maddie Ziegler
Collection: Teacher
Image of H. Rap Brown
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
- H. Rap Brown
Collection: Teacher
Image of Marilyn Hacker
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
- Marilyn Hacker
Collection: Teacher
Image of Condoleezza Rice
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
- Condoleezza Rice
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jet Li
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
- Jet Li
Collection: Teacher
Image of Paul O'Grady
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.
- Paul O'Grady
Collection: Teacher
Image of Kirsten Dunst
A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
- Kirsten Dunst
Collection: Teacher
Image of Amy Chua
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
- Amy Chua
Collection: Teacher
Image of Kate Adie
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
- Kate Adie
Collection: Teacher
Image of Gretchen Rubin
Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.
- Gretchen Rubin
Collection: Teacher
Image of Alan Sugar
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
- Alan Sugar
Collection: Teacher
Image of Gina Bellman
I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.
- Gina Bellman
Collection: Teacher
Image of Herschel Walker
I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.
- Herschel Walker
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ellen Pompeo
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
- Ellen Pompeo
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jon Secada
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
- Jon Secada
Collection: Teacher
Image of Carla Bley
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
- Carla Bley
Collection: Teacher
Image of Craig Robinson
My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.
- Craig Robinson
Collection: Teacher
Image of Nita Ambani
I was a teacher once.
- Nita Ambani
Collection: Teacher
Image of Elliott Abrams
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
- Elliott Abrams
Collection: Teacher
Image of Milos Forman
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
- Milos Forman
Collection: Teacher
Image of Wim Hof
Yes, my teacher is the cold.
- Wim Hof
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jose Antonio Vargas
Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.
- Jose Antonio Vargas
Collection: Teacher
Image of Shinichi Suzuki
Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
- Shinichi Suzuki
Collection: Teacher
Image of Tarana Burke
For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity.
- Tarana Burke
Collection: Teacher
Image of Herm Edwards
As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.
- Herm Edwards
Collection: Teacher
Image of Alex Rodriguez
I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.
- Alex Rodriguez
Collection: Teacher
Image of Chris Messina
My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Teacher
Image of Raveena Tandon
There is no better teacher than life itself.
- Raveena Tandon
Collection: Teacher
Image of Julia Cameron
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'
- Julia Cameron
Collection: Teacher
Image of Bjarne Stroustrup
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
Collection: Teacher
Image of Andy Andrews
I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
- Andy Andrews
Collection: Teacher
Image of Warren Zevon
I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
- Warren Zevon
Collection: Teacher
Image of John Cooper Clarke
I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.
- John Cooper Clarke
Collection: Teacher
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Teacher
Image of Niall Ferguson
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
- Niall Ferguson
Collection: Teacher
Image of Bill Bowerman
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
- Bill Bowerman
Collection: Teacher
Image of Amy Chua
I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.
- Amy Chua
Collection: Teacher
Image of Iyanla Vanzant
You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
- Iyanla Vanzant
Collection: Teacher