513 private quotes tagged teacher

“I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.”— Frederick Reines

“Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.”— Shinichi Suzuki

“Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.”— Jeffrey Donovan

“I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.”— David Eddings

“In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.”— Jim Hunt

“My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.”— Kristin Bauer van Straten

“I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.”— Connie Britton

“Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.”— Alanna Ubach

“Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.”— Bjarne Stroustrup

“My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.”— Ellie Kemper

“After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.”— Grazia Deledda

“Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.”— Dan Simmons

“I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.”— Dan Simmons

“I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.”— Krista Allen

“My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.”— Billy Baldwin

“I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!”— John Glover

“My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.”— Laura Benanti

“In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.”— Lucas Grabeel

“There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.”— David Puttnam

“Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.”— David Puttnam

“I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.”— Jane Haddam

“I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.”— Gary Burton

“My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.”— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.”— Glenn Ford

“I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.”— Ann Curry