Quotes About Family

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.