Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pearcey

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Ken Wilber

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

Kathleen Wynne

I'm committed to working with teachers.

Katherine Paterson

Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

Kate Clinton

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Karl A. Menninger

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Ken Ham

Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world--and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

Keith O'Brien

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

Katie Price

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

Krista Allen

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.

Krist Novoselic

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Kris Carr

For nearly a decade now, I've been teaching others how to thrive by filling their bodies with energizing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. Not a day goes by when someone doesn't write me to say, "Thanks, I feel better now, too." Those letters from my readers are my digital cardinals.

Mark Twain

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

Mark Twain

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Mark Twain

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Mark Twain

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Mark Twain

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Mark Twain

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Martin Gardner

One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.

Martin Heidegger

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Mark Mothersbaugh

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Mark Epstein

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Marion Barry

And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places—having to hire people from somewhere else.

Noam Chomsky

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Niklaus Wirth

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Niklaus Wirth

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

Nikki Giovanni

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

Nikki Giovanni

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Nicky Hilton

I always wanted to be a teacher.

Nick Saban

Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.

Nick Offerman

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Matt Cameron

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.