Love Students Quotes

#1. Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

David Dinkins

#2. I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

Frederick Lenz

#3. My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

Charles M. Schulz

#5. As I often tell my students, the person you'll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

Adyashanti

#6. I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.

Vandana Shiva

#7. I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

Rafe Esquith

#8. My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Lukas Foss

#9. Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world
and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

Margaret Mead

#10. I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear.

Danila Botha

#11. If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Ace Antonio Hall

#12. Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Darren Shan

#13. Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Alice Walker

#14. I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

Kiki Smith

#15. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

Josh Cooke

#16. Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you're not allowed to hit 'em with a shovel.

Terry Pratchett

#17. When my muffin top makes an appearance after a dedicated weekend of pizza indulging, when I feel too tired to write and all my words sound boring, when my students aren't laughing at my jokes, I am still enough.

Michelle Elaine Kennedy

#18. Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl's laugh grabbed my attention.

Melissa Darnell

#19. I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Ana Monnar

#20. Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

Eric Foner

#21. As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening
even, perhaps, a falling in love.

John C. Bean

#22. College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

David Brooks

#23. Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.

Frederick Lenz

#24. As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.

Norman Lamm

#25. Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Nell Irvin Painter

#26. My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

Bell Hooks

#27. Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

Chris Christie

#28. I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.

Douglas Wilson

#29. I want my students involved in learning to love and question art, not to live in fear of tests.

Marlene Nall Johnt

#30. I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

Silas House

#31. The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

Luis Gonzalez

#33. I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

Issa Rae

#34. I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

Jorge Luis Borges

#35. In this day and age, social media is a huge part of a business, which I actually love. It's a phenomenal platform to share your message, keep others and myself inspired and help keep your students connected to your events. The hardest part is the anonymous ability to say whatever you want.

Kathryn Budig

#36. At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a
beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I
don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university
students marching with you. Toward
A necessity which is not love but is a name.

Jack Spicer

#37. As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

Jerry Spinelli

#38. I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

Frederick Lenz

#39. I wasn't a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.

Marcelo Garcia

#40. I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Steven Spielberg

#41. I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.

Cate Marvin

#42. Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.

T.C. Boyle

#43. What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious

Joseph Epstein

#44. To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.

Cesar Millan

#45. I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

Deborah Harkness

#46. Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Terry Pratchett

#47. School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

Simone Weil

#48. There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#49. The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#50. It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates

#51. I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Wally Lamb

#52. Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Jack Kornfield

#53. I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

Mary Ellen Mark

#54. When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

Taylor Mali

#55. I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

Dorothy Allison

#56. Teenagers are passionate and they want music that speaks within their hearts. It's a big deal for students to listen to Christian music and talk about it at school. Music is a very exciting element of your life when you're love. I think it's huge.

Mark Hall

#57. I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

Karen Russell

#58. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

Maya Angelou

#59. I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.

John Callen

#60. Students may not remember what you try to teach them, but they will never forget who you are and what feelings you created in their mind.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

Gilbert Highet

#62. A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

Deval Patrick

#63. There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

Condoleezza Rice

#64. students, eh, you can love them or hate them, but you're not allowed to hit them with a shovel

Terry Pratchett

#65. I tell students and young professionals all the time to follow their hearts, do what they truly love, and if it's business, run it by being grounded in ethical consciousness.

John Mackey

#66. Love Egoist:
Let me tell you this. I've done things to be appreciated but nothing to be insulted for. After all, I'm trying my hardest not to disappoint my students.

Bisco Hatori

#67. This is how I show my students that I love them - by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they are about, and finding books that tell them, I know. I know. I know how it is. I know who you are, and even though we may never speak of it, read this book, and know that I understand you.

Donalyn Miller

#68. I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Robert Fripp

#69. I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

Warren Buffett

#70. I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

Shakuntala Devi