Teacher Quotes - Page 35

• I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

  Amy Sedaris

  Girl, Summer, Senior

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

  Donna Shalala

  School, Differences, Support

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  Gail Sheehy

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

  Alan Shepard

  Smart, Thinking, Years

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• When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

  Richard Simmons

  Strong, Night, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Teaching, May, Fairy Tale

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• I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Self, Envy, Parent

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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• I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Book, Thinking, Views

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• My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

  Steven Spielberg

  Firsts, Taught, Episodes

  "Steven Spielberg, Producer Kathleen Kennedy, and Screenwriter Richard Curtis War House Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2011.

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• You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

  Charles Stanley

  Thinking, Differences, Authority

  Interview with Michael Foust, www.bpnews.net. October 24, 2003.

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• I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Pupils, Ifs

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Kids, Perspective

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• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Science, Order

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• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Father, Streaks

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• If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

  Alan Sugar

  Years, Piano, Locks

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• Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

  Adora Svitak

  Important, Culture, Students

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mother, Rivers, Tree

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Teaching, Temperature, Failing

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

  Helen Thomas

  Peace, Blue, Jeans

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• I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Dad, School

  "'Growing Up Laughing' With Marlo Thomas". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 29, 2010.

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• 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.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, Challenges

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

  Simone Weil

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Classroom, Bad Grades

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• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Song, Jesus

  "Song: Jesus Walks (Album: "The College Dropout")". 2004.

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