Teachers Quote Quotes & Sayings

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself. — Audre Lorde

This is the opposite of the free market. — Bill Maher

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.' — Albert Shanker

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' — Michael Hastings

The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there. — Richard Bach

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves. — David Eddings

Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases. — John Stoker

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ... — Robert Reed

A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own. — Charles F. Glassman

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz ... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. — Nicolas Roeg

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others. — Jonathan Tisch

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity. — Carew Papritz

The only way to know how prayer works is to have complete knowledge and control of the past, present, and future. In other words, you can figure out how prayer works if you are God. — Paul E. Miller

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom — Rick Beneteau

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids. — Donna Quesada

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly — Earl Scruggs

The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your own teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig. — Tom Douglas

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip. — Lewis Black

There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak. — Agatha Christie