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I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

Quotes by Mary Lambert

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.

Quotes by Mary Beard

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.

Quotes by Marvin Hamlisch

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

Quotes by Martti Ahtisaari

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

Quotes by Martin Yan

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Quotes by Martin Mull

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven students and was taught by a rarity for our school, an exchange teacher from England, Mr. Leslie Sturges.

Quotes by Martin Chalfie

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Quotes by Martha Stewart

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Quotes by Marta Kristen

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Quotes by Mark Van Doren

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Quotes by Mark Ruffalo

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.

Quotes by Mark Mothersbaugh

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

Quotes by Mark Knopfler

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

Quotes by Mark Hoppus

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.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Quotes by Marilyn Ferguson

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

Quotes by Marilyn Ferguson

My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good in-between - using your brain but being creative.

Quotes by Maria Cornejo

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.

Quotes by Maria Cornejo

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Quotes by Maria Montessori

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Quotes by Maria Callas

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Quotes by Margaret Spellings

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

Quotes by Marcus du Sautoy

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Quotes by Malorie Blackman

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

Quotes by Malorie Blackman

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Quotes by Major Owens

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Mahatma Gandhi

I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher.

Quotes by Maggie Rogers

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Quotes by Maggie Gallagher

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

Quotes by Madison Pettis

I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

Quotes by Madeline Brewer

When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

Quotes by Madi Diaz

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

Quotes by MacKenzie Bezos

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

Quotes by Lynn Flewelling

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Quotes by Lynda Resnick

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Quotes by Lydia Leonard

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

Quotes by Lydia Millet

My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.

Quotes by Lucy Dacus

I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.

Quotes by Lucy Davis

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

Quotes by Lucy Deakins

I was an elementary school teacher.

Quotes by Luciano Pavarotti

My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.

Quotes by Luca Guadagnino

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Quotes by Lucas Grabeel

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Quotes by Luanne Rice

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

Quotes by Louis Sachar

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Quotes by Louis Farrakhan

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Quotes by Lorraine Toussaint

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.

Quotes by Lola Kirke

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.

Quotes by Lisa McMann

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.

Quotes by Lisa Madigan

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Quotes by Linda Evangelista

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Quotes by Lily Tomlin

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Quotes by Libba Bray

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.

Quotes by Liev Schreiber

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

Quotes by Li Bingbing

When I got back from London, I started with a new voice teacher in the experimental wing, who trained me to have my own artistry as opposed to forcing a technique upon me.

Quotes by Lia Ices

In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.

Quotes by Letitia Wright

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

Quotes by Lee Radziwill

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.

Quotes by Lee Smith

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Quotes by Lee Iacocca

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

Quotes by Lawrence Wright

When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like many kids, after University I went home going ‘ahhh I don’t know what to do’. I happened to fall upon a job there because they were desperate for a physics teacher which is a common theme among many schools.

Quotes by Layla Moran

In my head, I’m still a teacher. I miss the kids.

Quotes by Layla Moran

As a former teacher, I know how frustrating it must be to watch students walk out of class, particularly if they have important exams on the horizon.

Quotes by Layla Moran

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

Quotes by Layla Moran

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

Quotes by Laverne Cox

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Quotes by Laurieann Gibson

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

Quotes by Laurence Yep

I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.

Quotes by Lauren Lapkus

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Quotes by Lauren DeStefano

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

Quotes by Laura Carmichael

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.

Quotes by Laura Donnelly

My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.

Quotes by Laura Donnelly

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

Quotes by Lance Burton

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Quotes by Lady Gaga

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

Quotes by Kym Whitley

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Quotes by L. Lionel Kendrick

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.

Quotes by Kurt Bills

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

Quotes by Kurt Masur

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Quotes by Kristin Bauer van Straten

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

Quotes by Kristin Gore

I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.

Quotes by Kristen Soltis Anderson

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

Quotes by Krist Novoselic

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.

Quotes by Krista Allen

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Quotes by Kobe Bryant

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

Quotes by Kim Edwards

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

Quotes by Kid Cudi

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Khalil Gibran

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

Quotes by Kevin Richardson

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