513 private quotes tagged teacher

“I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.”— Warren Zevon

“I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.”— Skeet Ulrich

“I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.”— Judy Collins

“I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.”— John Madden

“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”— Marilyn Hacker

“I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.”— Jennie Garth

“I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.”— Tim Gunn

“If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.”— Tim Gunn

“Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.”— Debra Messing

“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

“Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.”— David Guterson

“I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.”— Tony Visconti

“Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.”— Major Owens

“We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.”— Major Owens

“The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.”— Felix Adler

“My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.”— Loni Anderson

“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'”— Archie Panjabi

“My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.”— Niklaus Wirth

“My first career was as a coach and a teacher.”— David Friedman

“One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.”— Andrew Cohen

“If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.”— Steve Guttenberg

“My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.”— Simon Newcomb

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”— Simon Newcomb

“I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.”— Sanford I. Weill

“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.”— Saul Williams