Teachers Quotes (1308 Quotes)

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

The priest was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

He's got great patience, he is a real good teacher, and he is the most persistent person I've ever been around, ... Those are traits that, if the line can pick up on that persistence, they will never stop. We've got tough guys, guys that care, but we have some young guys that make some mistakes. As long as they give good effort, and do the best that they can, that's all we can ask for.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Today's results are further evidence of rising standards in our education system and this is a clear reflection of the hard work of our young people and their teachers. I congratulate them on their achievements - they should take pride in these results.

Would I have been better off as a teacher in Ireland or Spain It's a very difficult question to answer. You take the road and you travel along it. I probably would do the same thing again.

I hated that I had to move around. It's hard on everybody. We have a great administration, teachers and students - we just have too many of them (students).

As a teacher, of course I'm always full of advice.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president, because you have to have them. The world would have been dead a long time ago without garbage men.

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

People with a 120,000 job as a research scientist aren't going to be knocking down doors to make 28,000 a year as a teacher.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

It has to end. Our students need to feel safe in school, ... Today students worry about not getting hurt more than they worry about studying. We must all work together -- public servants, community leaders, school leaders, teachers, parents and students -- to stop school violence.

Teachers and textbooks... those are the two most costly items our districts will incur. That's what they're hoping the federal government will pick up the tab for.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

We think our teachers are getting better and better on focusing in on what intervention a student may need to get them to improve.

Any time you add additional duties, teachers expect to be paid, which is reasonable. But with pension and health care costs going through the roof, we can't afford things like higher pay for more work.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Whenever It Rains Frulein Dr. Sauter, our religion teacher, wore hand-knit underwear. Couldn't buy any she was as big as Noah's Ark. Whenever it rains, I think of her. She loved that story. Wanted to sail away, 'cupped in God's hands.' She'd clasp hers,

I knew I was a good teacher. But we are constantly having to prove we are doing a good job. (By passing the test) I have proven myself to others. I've been impressed by the level of respect I get.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

I just want to thank people from the bottom of my heart for being so human and so caring towards us in our time of need. From the teachers to the principal to human services at Town Hall to parents to strangers, everybody has come together in our time of

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

He's like a school teacher. You sit there and talk to him on the bench, pick his brain and he'll somehow make you come up with the answer.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

Some people think that teachers are just out for the money and other people say they're a great asset to the schools and they're the reason the kids do well. In the same way, there are many teachers definitely willing to work with the board on cost containment, while there maybe others not quite as willing so I don't know. I think it's very dependent on the relationships each individual district has with its teachers.

In the Haitian community, a lot of the parents believe the teacher is in charge of everything. They are intimidated to come to you, but you have to go to them and build that trust.

Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, 'Committed to what' .... let us be committed to ... using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.

My mother was an au-pair living in France, also a French teacher. My parents came over to England only a few years before I was born.

The next day, our kids have the wonderful bags of treats for their classmates and teachers, we have goodies for our offices, and after school, the kids take treats to our neighbors.

She really poured her heart into the kids. She loved teaching art and being able to incorporate the Bible and the word of God into it. As a teacher she took such a special interest into each student. The things she brought out of the kids were unbelievable. I was impressed with the creativity she pulled out of each student.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I didn't like to read, ... I was embarrassed because I didn't want kids to laugh at me, and kids sometimes have the tendency to make you feel bad when you can't do what the teacher wants you to do.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

We're very seasonal. Our calculators, which are used in the math and science classrooms, are on teachers' school supply lists that get passed out in the August-to-September time frame. So initially, we'd like to use RFID to prevent out-of-stocks and keep products flowing during that key back-to-school season.

Why would anyone make a hard decision again What if we had immediate recall of every teacher, every preacher What if kids could recall their parents

Teachers, after teaching a certain amount of time, they have to earn a master's degree and they have to do it while they work.

We involved the public throughout phase one, including making the decision on whether we had one middle school or two. At the individual schools, the teachers had input on where the classrooms were located and what they would look like.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.