Top 100 Teachers're Quotes

#1. I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

Ruth Wilson

Teachers're Quotes #5520
#2. But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

Robert Sternberg

Teachers're Quotes #10813
#3. I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.

Amanda Beard

Teachers're Quotes #23688
#4. It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Brian Francis

Teachers're Quotes #36901
#5. It feels like last week, but in fact we're now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud ... and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan today who were in fourth grade on 9/11.

Tucker Elliot

Teachers're Quotes #36928
#6. Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Jamie Oliver

Teachers're Quotes #37876
#7. I'm sure you're wrong," Cat murmured. "Teachers have to like all kids. It's in the job description.

J.M. Madden

Teachers're Quotes #38419
#8. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.

Rafe Esquith

Teachers're Quotes #70323
#9. I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Patricia Arquette

Teachers're Quotes #74131
#10. Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Taylor Mali

Teachers're Quotes #89991
#11. And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond reach!

Anne Rice

Teachers're Quotes #91442
#12. You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Jenna Bush

Teachers're Quotes #102348
#13. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

John Wooden

Teachers're Quotes #146757
#14. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.

Liane Moriarty

Teachers're Quotes #154001
#15. I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Dan Chaon

Teachers're Quotes #161208
#16. You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach ... but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

Jim Gaffigan

Teachers're Quotes #168234
#17. I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

Erin Gruwell

Teachers're Quotes #168914
#18. Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

Billy Joel

Teachers're Quotes #174611
#19. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Teachers're Quotes #186067
#20. If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

Michael Bennet

Teachers're Quotes #196676
#21. Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

Sarah Churchwell

Teachers're Quotes #205005
#22. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

Rupert Murdoch

Teachers're Quotes #224109
#23. I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

Uzo Aduba

Teachers're Quotes #243132
#24. It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Orson Scott Card

Teachers're Quotes #275614
#25. For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.

Stella Young

Teachers're Quotes #318917
#26. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn

Teachers're Quotes #321295
#27. Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

Jesse L. Martin

Teachers're Quotes #334830
#28. Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Guardino

Teachers're Quotes #394881
#29. I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Tim Robbins

Teachers're Quotes #434301
#30. I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.

David Plouffe

Teachers're Quotes #437266
#31. When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

P. J. O'Rourke

Teachers're Quotes #446239
#32. They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!

George Takei

Teachers're Quotes #457358
#33. There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

Shannon Miller

Teachers're Quotes #464847
#34. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Carl Sagan

Teachers're Quotes #473151
#35. Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.

Frederick Lenz

Teachers're Quotes #483094
#36. You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

Lapo Elkann

Teachers're Quotes #483319
#37. The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Teachers're Quotes #528195
#38. With a project like Teachers Lounge, you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.

Ted Alexandro

Teachers're Quotes #546409
#39. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single.

Daniel Handler

Teachers're Quotes #564207
#40. 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

Teachers're Quotes #577279
#41. In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

Teachers're Quotes #612707
#42. Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers.

Wayne W. Dyer

Teachers're Quotes #613782
#43. You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

Gary D. Schmidt

Teachers're Quotes #634352
#44. The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

Henri Nouwen

Teachers're Quotes #652923
#45. The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

Daniel Berrigan

Teachers're Quotes #676214
#46. I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Dick Cavett

Teachers're Quotes #679762
#47. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

Philip Pullman

Teachers're Quotes #720953
#48. The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

Charles Benoit

Teachers're Quotes #726708
#49. If you are considering building your own business, you need to be acutely aware of who you're spending your time with and who your teachers are. It's a crucial consideration.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Teachers're Quotes #758063
#50. We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

Justin Timberlake

Teachers're Quotes #764241
#51. Dear God I've heard your name from teachers , family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face , they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

Teachers're Quotes #786150
#52. Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

Robert Kiyosaki

Teachers're Quotes #797863
#53. Our influence on the way our kids turn out is limited. We're competing, of course, with genetics, peers, culture, and the other adults (nannies, teachers, grandparents, coaches) in our children's lives. Parents can claim maybe 20 percent to 50 percent of the influence, researchers say.

Tracy Cutchlow

Teachers're Quotes #821585
#54. Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Erin Gruwell

Teachers're Quotes #822354
#55. 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

Teachers're Quotes #826680
#56. Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

Mandy Patinkin

Teachers're Quotes #830467
#57. But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.

Cory Doctorow

Teachers're Quotes #831831
#58. Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.

David McCullough

Teachers're Quotes #835714
#59. When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

Kristen Stewart

Teachers're Quotes #842350
#60. At our best, we're all teachers

Maya Angelou

Teachers're Quotes #894206
#61. These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy.

Orson Scott Card

Teachers're Quotes #894334
#62. As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.

James Franco

Teachers're Quotes #946956
#63. Obviously, things work best when parents and teachers are helping kids to become good people - and, better yet, when they're actively supporting one another's efforts.

Alfie Kohn

Teachers're Quotes #1006848
#64. My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Teachers're Quotes #1013719
#65. So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

Margaret Whiting

Teachers're Quotes #1034907
#66. But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

Barack Obama

Teachers're Quotes #1042225
#67. We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Wendy Kopp

Teachers're Quotes #1043002
#68. We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things - our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.

Dan Ariely

Teachers're Quotes #1075362
#69. My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

Byron Katie

Teachers're Quotes #1088343
#70. Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project.

Naomi Watts

Teachers're Quotes #1111614
#71. My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.

Gudjon Bergmann

Teachers're Quotes #1116286
#72. Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

Craig T. Nelson

Teachers're Quotes #1120192
#73. My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'

Priscilla Chan

Teachers're Quotes #1129354
#74. I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

Morgan Spurlock

Teachers're Quotes #1147012
#75. I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.

Marsha Blackburn

Teachers're Quotes #1159557
#76. If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

Anne Lamott

Teachers're Quotes #1216656
#77. The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

Tim Foley

Teachers're Quotes #1259716
#78. Do people actually do that
go back and thank their teachers years later, when they're no longer handicapped by youth and ignorance, when they figure out just how much their teachers actually did for them?

Matthew Quick

Teachers're Quotes #1260926
#79. 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

Teachers're Quotes #1269210
#80. 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

Teachers're Quotes #1306578
#81. Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

Jeffrey Toobin

Teachers're Quotes #1312313
#82. They're probably mad because you're smart and make good grades. Kids are stupid like that. The teachers love you, though, right?"
"I'll tell you what my mom says teachers don't love," said Frank. "Being corrected.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

Teachers're Quotes #1325404
#83. The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Byron Katie

Teachers're Quotes #1335967
#84. One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

Bell Hooks

Teachers're Quotes #1368506
#85. Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

David Mitchell

Teachers're Quotes #1378756
#86. We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.

Shakira

Teachers're Quotes #1383991
#87. We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

Ulysses S. Grant

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#88. However much they're paying teachers these days, it is not enough. Middle-schoolers are animals.

Meg Cabot

Teachers're Quotes #1391007
#89. There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Mos Def

Teachers're Quotes #1396634
#90. So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?

Sheena Iyengar

Teachers're Quotes #1402301
#91. She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time.
(p. 24)

Keith Gray

Teachers're Quotes #1445369
#92. Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Jason Alexander

Teachers're Quotes #1451241
#93. The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Louise Nurding

Teachers're Quotes #1453579
#94. Most of my teachers let me do independent studies, because they know I get bored in class and, frankly, I think they're a little scared that I know more than they do and they don't want to have to admit it.

Jodi Picoult

Teachers're Quotes #1460921
#95. You're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

Chuck Palahniuk

Teachers're Quotes #1477799
#96. Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Peter Norvig

Teachers're Quotes #1489668
#97. Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics ... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

Philip Guston

Teachers're Quotes #1494897
#98. The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Andrew Shue

Teachers're Quotes #1504891
#99. Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

Zack De La Rocha

Teachers're Quotes #1517853
#100. Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

Frederick Lenz

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