Best French Teacher Quotes

#1. One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Paul Simon

#2. it was black as a sinner's heart once night fell,

Melanie Jackson

#3. I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Lydia Leonard

#4. I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Karl Lagerfeld

#5. I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

Jim Croce

#6. A named thing is a tamed thing.

Joanne Harris

#7. My seven a.m. teacher was from France. And he spoke Frenglish. Sometimes it was funny, but when he announced which chapters we should study and the names came out in English, but the chapter numbers came out in French, I wanted to strangle the sacre bleu out of him.

Lila Felix

#8. The last time I'd spoken French I was twelve years old; before I reached my thirteenth birthday the teacher had correctly steered me into woodwork classes.

Craig Briggs

#9. My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Rory Bremner

#10. Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#12. My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

Joshua Bell

#13. I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

Tom Stoppard

#14. Fickle as water,
our life is as dreamlike as smoke
- at our expense,
fate's private joke.
-The Bronze Horseman

Alexander Pushkin

#15. Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

Tana French

#16. If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern.

Peter S. Beagle

#17. They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.

Michael Davidow

#18. I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Karl Lagerfeld