Influential Teacher Quotes

#1. Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.

Laurent A. Daloz

#2. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).

Donalyn Miller

#3. It's true I live on hope. Why shouldn't I? Every day I see her beauty while you rot in hell. You will tell me that I'm deluded but we are all deluded in some way. The question is which is the best delusion.

Danny Scheinmann

#4. Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.

Lawren Leo

#5. Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. You are so much more than I could have ever wished for. ~ Cate Mullen

Chris Kuhn

#7. I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

Wayne Dyer

#8. In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Malcolm X

#9. I had an opportunity to make an album - that was a dream come true. I had to make sure that I could do it the best way I could, and at least at the end of it be very pleased with it and not regret anything. So that took a lot of concentration. Being isolated really helps with that.

Michael Kiwanuka

#10. I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

John Baldessari

#11. To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Theodor Adorno

#12. In which they are alone now and there doesn't seem to be anyone around. Sometime

Maya Rodale

#13. I'm still young; I've had a couple things under my belt. I don't even think I've begun where I'm gonna be eventually. I really feel very much in the beginning of my journey. I feel very new.

Lauren London

#14. I find reality television to be so delectable.

Lizzy Caplan

#15. My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Brandon Jay McLaren

#16. Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#17. It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link ... He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.

Paul Tournier

#18. Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

Laura Miller

#19. Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

Karla Faye Tucker