Peter O'Toole Quotes

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

Peter O'Toole

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• New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Home
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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Everything
  • Loved

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
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• I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Teacher
  • Learn
  • Late

• Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Born
  • Situation
  • Being

• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Father

• The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Young
  • Born
  • Old

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Moment

• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hope
  • Present
  • Teacher

• This time I think that my lover Understands me If we have faith in each other Then we can be Strong, baby I will be your father figure Put your tiny hand in mine I will be your preacher teacher Anything you have in mind I will be your father figure I have had enough of crime I will be the one who loves you … 'Til the end of time.

  

  George Michael
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Father

• Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • English

• I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • School
  • Remember
  • Singing

• So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • Up
  • Character
  • Kids

• The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Force
  • Produce
  • Optimist

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.

  

  Darren Shan
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• Official brutality, which characterizes boot camps in America, is inhuman and does not work.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Work
  • America
  • Brutality

• I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Teacher
  • Son
  • Needs