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Quotes About Impact

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.
~ Kevin Sorbo
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
~ Frank Herbert
If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.
~ Robin Williams
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
~ George Lucas
I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.
~ Jim Carrey
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
~ Stephen Mangan
I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
~ Scott Hamilton
If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
~ Richard Bach
Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
~ Henry Adams
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
~ William James
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
~ Jodi Picoult
The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!
~ Rosie O'Donnell
I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.
~ Kanye West
Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.
~ Rafe Esquith
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
~ Quintilian
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.
~ Roger Rosenblatt
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
~ Michael Gove
We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.
~ Narendra Modi
India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?
~ Narendra Modi
The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.
~ Parker J. Palmer
After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.
~ Randy Travis
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
~ Richard Hamming