Quotes About Values

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.

I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best.