My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that I wanted to act. By the time I was 12, I was hell-bent on it.
Marc Warren
TimeSchoolMeYoungTeachersAct
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.
Miles Teller
SchoolMeLovedTeachersMiddle
What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.
Jacob Weisberg
HopeLoseQuitTeachersSpiritOnly
The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.
Judy Blume
YearFindTeachersQuestionRight
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine
MedicineTeachersEveryoneTerrible
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
Jonathan Kozol
StruggleGoalYoungTeachersOld
My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.
Cary Fukunaga
TeacherHistorySchoolMomTeachers
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.
Diane Cilento
PeopleSpeakYouTeachersPretty
It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
Eli Broad
TeachersImproveCriticalHowStates
We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.
Doug Ducey
JobBureaucracyTeachersEmpowerOur
If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
Wendy Kopp
FutureReachSituationKnowTeachers
I can legitimately say without being arrogant that there's probably a stretch where I was one of the better teachers of improv in the country.
Chris Gethard
BetterI CanCountrySayTeachers
My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
Vanessa Williams
ParentsTeachersOffBothHad
Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
Clea Duvall
MeThoughtTeachersKidPunkOut
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon
SchoolMeHigh SchoolCopyTeachers
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Bryant H. McGill
LifeWisdomGreatSufferingTeachers
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Ralph Regula
GoTeachersMilitaryTeachingTroops
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
Arthur Lewis
JanuarySchoolParentsBornTeachers
Teachers alone can't educate young people.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
AlonePeopleYoungTeachersEducate
The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
William Gurnall
SinTeachersSins
Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
Madeline Carroll
SchoolRememberTeachersRudeKids
I think good teachers are underpaid.
Peter Brimelow
GoodThinkTeachersI Think
David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
Kate Christensen
TeacherChefTeachersTalkWellHe
I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
Scott Hamilton
ThinkImpactTeachersRealizeMost
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