Quotes About Wonderful Teachers

#1. I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

Pierce Brosnan

#2. I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.

James Alison

#3. I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

Brice Marden

#4. I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

Brian Blessed

#5. I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.

Kate Beckinsale

#6. All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

Ken Robinson

#7. As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Bill Moyers

#8. When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

Andie MacDowell

#9. Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

#10. All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

Louise Hay

#11. As usual, I collected humans. I was tired. And the year wasn't even halfway over yet.

Markus Zusak

#12. Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.

Jason Evert

#13. I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog ... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Mindy Kaling

#14. I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

Dennis Rodman

#15. Minimal art went nowhere.

Sol LeWitt

#16. In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

Malala Yousafzai

#17. I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

Andrew Clements

#18. Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

Sheila Walsh

#19. Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Edward Griffith Begle

#20. If you don't change, you will become extinct.

Spencer Johnson

#21. I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers.

Jeannette Walls

#22. I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

Lyle Lovett

#23. Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

Mark Twain

#25. We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

#26. Hadst thou sought the whole earth over," said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no place so secret- no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,- save on this very scaffold!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#27. Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because they have wonderful ideas about how to share books, and especially about how to share my books with kids.

Rick Riordan

#28. Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

Sakyong Mipham

#29. Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind.
Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.

David Levithan

#30. If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.

Kym Whitley

#31. Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

Seth Godin

#32. I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

Quinton Aaron

#33. Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

#34. I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

Karen Allen