Teacher Quotes - page 35

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. (Feisal Abdul Rauf)
I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. View quote
Garry Hynes
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. View quote
H. Rap Brown
I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more. View quote
Herschel Walker
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick. View quote
Hanna Rosin
You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human. View quote
Iyanla Vanzant
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. View quote
James Galway
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. View quote
James S. Coleman
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure. View quote
Jamie Moyer
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. (Jane Haddam)
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. View quote
Jane McGonigal
I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms. View quote
Jay Nixon
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs. View quote
Jeanine Basinger
I hope that I serve by being a teacher. View quote
Jenna Bush
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school. View quote
Jennie Garth
The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone. View quote
Jessica Szohr
I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it. View quote
Jessica Valenti
I feel really good in the teacher role. View quote
Jimmy Chamberlin
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.' View quote
Jack Reynor
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play. (John Gokongwei)
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.' View quote
John Henrik Clarke
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. View quote
John Lasseter
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. View quote
John Madden
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. View quote
John Mellencamp