Teacher Teachers Day Quotes

#1. This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.

Victor Hugo

#2. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Sonia Sotomayor

#3. The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

Dana Goldstein

#4. Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.

Sam Keen

#5. Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

Frederick Lenz

#7. All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. You've got to make sure that you don't overstep your boundaries with teachers, especially when it's report card day or when you're about to take a test.

Jordan Francis

#9. But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Ellen Glasgow

#10. We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

Bruce Springsteen

#11. A leader is not born; Teachers make the one.

Vikrmn

#12. The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your own teacher!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.

Vera Farmiga

#14. I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

Dana Goldstein

#15. The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

Rosie O'Donnell

#16. I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Stephen Leacock

#17. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

#19. I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Oprah Winfrey

#20. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

Shel Silverstein

#21. God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Betty Eadie

#22. Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

John Loengard

#23. When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

Milton Berle

#24. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Julie Andrews

#25. Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.

Harry S. Truman

#26. Cause it's hurt, when I know you're hurt.

Karina Ayu Pradita

#27. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.

Carsten Jensen

#28. Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

John Dewey

#29. I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.

Alfred Doblin

#30. Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#31. Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

Mal Peet

#32. We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love

Wong Kar-Wai

#33. Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

Amit Ray

#34. Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .

Revathi Sankaran

#35. I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Andrew Shue