Teacher Ornament Quotes

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work. ~ Nathan Fillion

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell ~ Stephen Chbosky

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson

A Buddhist teacher once said that a poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk toward it. ~ Daniel Gottlieb

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout. ~ H.G.Wells

Shall there come a day when wise men are able to unite the dreams of youth and the delights of learning as reproach brings together hearts in conflict? Shall there come a day when man's teacher is nature, and humanity is his book ~ Kahlil Gibran

I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns. ~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much. ~ Robert Barry

Good students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of them all: we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives. The expert makes all the important choices; only I, the teacher, can determine what my kids must study, or rather, only the people who pay me can make those decisions, which I then enforce. ~ John Taylor Gatto

I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her. ~ Leslie Mann

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse. ~ Andy Hargreaves

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up. ~ Jimmy Page

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great. ~ Katherine Jenkins

If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters. ~ Henry Miller

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real. ~ Kiese Laymon

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. ~ Nina Simone

History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me. ~ Georg Brandes

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. ~ John Madden

You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always understands and always forgives. ~ Frederick Lenz

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school. ~ Michael Gove

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers. ~ James A. Michener

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~ Karl A. Menninger

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful. ~ Anthony Bourdain

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student. ~ Byron Katie

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness. ~ Khalil Gibran

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. ~ Parker J. Palmer

I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there. ~ Michelle Yeoh

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. ~ Robert Frost

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance. ~ Martha Stewart

Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore. ~ Eckhart Tolle

An adventure is nothing but a story. After the adventure ends, it's nothing but a memory; a shadow of a life you lived. People will envy you for the time it takes you to tell the story. But after that, what then? I think people admire you more for becoming a teacher. I really do. ~ Alex Z. Moores

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall. ~ Fred Gwynne

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. ~ Stephen Colbert

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids. ~ Stefon Harris

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man. ~ David Suchet

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher. ~ Karlie Kloss