Quotes About Teaching

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

The Bible teaches that money is one of the fruits of being prosperous, but it is certainly not the root.

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.