Quotes About Influence

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I'm not a politician. I am an English teacher.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Mr. Bachchan is one of the best things to have happened in my life. The best teacher, the best guru.

My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt's footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.

From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

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

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.