Teacher Quotes
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I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
Diora Baird
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I wasn't a very good teacher.
Amos Lee
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I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
Marta Kristen
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Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
Bjarne Stroustrup
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Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
Stevie Wonder
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I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
Jacqueline Bisset
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You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
Alanna Ubach
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I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
Doreen Cronin
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My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
Elaine Paige
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As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.
Lynda Resnick
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
William Griffith Wilson
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Those two teachers Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.
Warren MacKenzie
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.
Chic Murray
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I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.
Matthew Quick
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I want to be able to look my daughter’s teacher in the eye and say, ‘Your pension will be there.’ I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep
Gina Raimondo
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
Amy Chua
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I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher.
Khalid
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
Doris Roberts
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My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
Jean Fritz
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Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.
Rachel Caine
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I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.
David Morse