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Quotes About Teaching

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
~ Heidi Klum
I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.
~ Elisabeth Shue
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
~ Agnes Repplier
I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.
~ Ali Liebegott
I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.
~ Andy Samberg
My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"
~ Anne Hathaway
What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.
~ Ayelet Waldman
I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.
~ Benjamin Carson
My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.
~ Beryl Bender Birch
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
~ Danica McKellar
Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.
~ Dharma Mittra
Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.
~ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.
~ Dr. Seuss
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
~ Edith Sitwell
Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.
~ Frederick Lenz
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
~ Rachel Zucker
Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.
~ Robert H. Frank
I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.
~ Stephen Shore
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.
~ Steven Pinker
I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.
~ T. D. Jakes
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
~ Thomas Jefferson