Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Henry David Thoreau

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Gyorgy Ligeti

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

H. L. Mencken

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Jill Sobule

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

Jessica Lange

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

Jeremy Collier

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jennifer Carpenter

I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

Jeff Sessions

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

Jeff Sessions

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

Jeff Goldblum

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

Jeff Goldblum

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way...

Jean Toomer

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Jean Rostand

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Jean Vanier

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

Jerry Saltz

Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

Jerry Seinfeld

Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.

Jeffrey Eugenides

When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

Jim Gaffigan

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

Jesse Jackson

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Jesse Jackson

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

Jennifer Lopez

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jeffrey Rosen

Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

Jeff Foxworthy

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

Jeff Foxworthy

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

Jean Houston

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Jean Houston

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

James Carville

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

James C. Collins

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.