3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
3 December 2020 Allan Bloom There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
3 December 2020 Gordon Ramsay My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
3 December 2020 Cecilia Bartoli When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
3 December 2020 Timothy McVeigh Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
3 December 2020 James Levine I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
3 December 2020 Katarina Witt I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
3 December 2020 Simon Callow My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Hacker My mother was told she couldn’t go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand 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.
3 December 2020 Chris Hayes My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
3 December 2020 Peter Jurasik I went whole hog at the actor’s lifestyle – really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary – that’s the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
3 December 2020 Peter Agre Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
3 December 2020 Susan Hampshire I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
3 December 2020 Kristin Bauer van Straten My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.
3 December 2020 Mike Krzyzewski My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
3 December 2020 Marvin Hamlisch I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.
3 December 2020 Andrew Shue I was on Oprah’s show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn’t even go into my family, who had the most influence.
3 December 2020 Flannery O'Connor There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
3 December 2020 Dana Spiotta I don’t have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
3 December 2020 Kay Granger I reached a time in college when I didn’t know what I wanted to do. At that time, women’s careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher’s certificate.
3 December 2020 Liev Schreiber I was a writer. I just wasn’t a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I’d be a better actor than I would a playwright.
3 December 2020 Jon Hamm I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.
3 December 2020 Dr. Seuss You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
